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Peer reviewedSwingley, Daniel; Pinto, John P.; Fernald, Anne – Cognition, 1999
Three experiments used a visual fixation technique to examine whether toddlers interpret speech continuously. Found that 24-month-olds had delayed responses when a competing distractor picture's label overlapped phonetically with the target at onset, but not when the pictures' labels rhymed, showing that children monitored speech stream…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
