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Herold, Debora S.; Nygaard, Lynne C.; Namy, Laura L. – Language and Speech, 2012
Prosody plays a variety of roles in infants' communicative development, aiding in attention modulation, speech segmentation, and syntax acquisition. This study investigates the extent to which parents also spontaneously modulate prosodic aspects of infant directed speech in ways that distinguish semantic aspects of language. Fourteen mothers of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Picture Books, Mothers, Semantics
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Jones, Lara L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Mediated priming refers to the activation of a target (e.g., "stripes") by a prime (e.g., "lion") that is related indirectly via a connecting mediator (e.g., tiger). In previous mediated priming studies (e.g., McNamara & Altarriba, 1988), the mediator was associatively related to the prime. In contrast, pure mediated…
Descriptors: Semantics, Priming, Memory, Recall (Psychology)