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Direct linkHochmann, Jean-Remy; Endress, Ansgar D.; Mehler, Jacques – Cognition, 2010
While content words (e.g., 'dog') tend to carry meaning, function words (e.g., 'the') mainly serve syntactic purposes. Here, we ask whether 17-month old infants can use one language-universal cue to identify function word candidates: their high frequency of occurrence. In Experiment 1, infants listened to a series of short, naturally recorded…
Descriptors: Sentences, Cues, Nouns, Infants
