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What Paradox? Referential Cues Allow for Infant Use of Phonetic Detail in Word Learning
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Fennell, Christopher T.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Child Development, 2010
Past research has uncovered a surprising paradox: Although 14-month-olds have exquisite phonetic discrimination skills (e.g., distinguishing [b] from [d]), they have difficulty using phonetic detail when mapping "novel" words to objects in laboratory tasks (confusing "bin" and "din"). While some have attributed infants' difficulty to immature word…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonetics, Infants, Auditory Perception
Perception of Dynamic and Static Audiovisual Sequences in 3- and 4-Month-Old Infants
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Lewkowicz, David J. – Child Development, 2008
This study investigated perception of audiovisual sequences in 3- and 4-month-old infants. Infants were habituated to sequences consisting of moving/sounding or looming/sounding objects and then tested for their ability to detect changes in the order of the objects, sounds, or both. Results showed that 3-month-olds perceived the order of 3-element…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Child Development, Perceptual Development
Infants' Perception of the Audible, Visible, and Bimodal Attributes of Multimodal Syllables.
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Lewkowicz, David J. – Child Development, 2000
Three experiments investigated 4-, 6-, and 8-month-olds' perception of the audible, visible, and combined attributes of bimodally specified syllables. Results suggested that at 4 months, infants attended primarily to the featural information, at 6 months primarily to the asynchrony, and at 8 months to both features independently. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception