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Direct linkGomez, Rebecca L.; Lakusta, Laura – Developmental Science, 2004
The present experiments investigate how young language learners begin to acquire form-based categories and the relationships between them. We investigated this question by exposing 12-month-olds to auditory structure of the form aX and bY (infants had to learn that a-elements grouped with Xs and not Ys). Infants were then tested on strings from…
Descriptors: Grammar, Infants, Language Acquisition, Listening
