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Werker, Janet F.; Pons, Ferran; Dietrich, Christiane; Kajikawa, Sachiyo; Fais, Laurel; Amano, Shigeaki – Cognition, 2007
Across the first year of life, infants show decreased sensitivity to phonetic differences not used in the native language [Werker, J. F., & Tees, R. C. (1984). Cross-language speech perception: evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life. "Infant Behaviour and Development," 7, 49-63]. In an artificial language learning…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Cues, Mothers, Auditory Perception
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Fernandes, Keith J.; Marcus, Gary F.; Di Nubila, Jennifer A.; Vouloumanos, Athena – Cognition, 2006
An essential part of the human capacity for language is the ability to link conceptual or semantic representations with syntactic representations. On the basis of data from spontaneous production, Tomasello (2000) suggested that young children acquire such links on a verb-by-verb basis, with little in the way of a general understanding of…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Semantics, Verbs, Language Acquisition