Floccia, Caroline, Keren-Portnoy, Tamar, DePaolis, Rory, Duffy, Hester, Delle Luche, Claire, Durrant, Samantha, White, Laurence, Goslin, Jeremy and Vihman, Marilyn May (2016) British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli. Cognition, 148 . pp. 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004 ISSN 0010-0277.
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Abstract
The word segmentation paradigm originally designed by Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) has been widely used to examine how infants from the age of 7.5 months can extract novel words from continuous speech. Here we report a series of 13 studies conducted independently in two British laboratories, showing that British English-learning infants aged 8–10.5 months fail to show evidence of word segmentation when tested in this paradigm. In only one study did we find evidence of word segmentation at 10.5 months, when we used an exaggerated infant-directed speech style. We discuss the impact of variations in infant-directed style within and across languages in the course of language acquisition.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| Official Date: | March 2016 |
| Dates: | Date Event 18 December 2015 Available 11 December 2015 Accepted 26 March 2015 Submitted March 2016 Published |
| Volume: | 148 |
| Page Range: | pp. 1-9 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Funder: | Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) |
| Grant number: | RES-000-22-3596 (ESRC), RES-000-22-3331 (ESRC), ES/L008955/1 (ESRC) |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/77013/ |
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