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Melis Çetinçelik; Caroline F. Rowland; Tineke M. Snijders – Developmental Science, 2024
The environment in which infants learn language is multimodal and rich with social cues. Yet, the effects of such cues, such as eye contact, on early speech perception have not been closely examined. This study assessed the role of ostensive speech, signalled through the speaker's eye gaze direction, on infants' word segmentation abilities. A…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Infants, Nonverbal Communication, Word Recognition
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Martinez-Alvarez, Anna; Benavides-Varela, Silvia; Lapillonne, Alexandre; Gervain, Judit – Developmental Science, 2023
Prosody is the fundamental organizing principle of spoken language, carrying lexical, morphosyntactic, and pragmatic information. It, therefore, provides highly relevant input for language development. Are infants sensitive to this important aspect of spoken language early on? In this study, we asked whether infants are able to discriminate…
Descriptors: Neonates, Oral Language, Language Acquisition, Suprasegmentals
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Ansgar D. Endress – Developmental Science, 2024
In many domains, learners extract recurring units from continuous sequences. For example, in unknown languages, fluent speech is perceived as a continuous signal. Learners need to extract the underlying words from this continuous signal and then memorize them. One prominent candidate mechanism is statistical learning, whereby learners track how…
Descriptors: Syllables, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Memory
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Jasinska, Kaja K.; Shuai, Lan; Lau, Airey N. L.; Frost, Stephen; Landi, Nicole; Pugh, Kenneth R. – Developmental Science, 2021
Understanding how pre-literate children's language abilities and neural function relate to future reading ability is important for identifying children who may be at-risk for reading problems. Pre-literate children are already proficient users of spoken language and their developing brain networks for language become highly overlapping with brain…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Cognitive Processes, Language Acquisition
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Ríos-López, Paula; Molinaro, Nicola; Bourguignon, Mathieu; Lallier, Marie – Developmental Science, 2020
Recent neurophysiological theories propose that the cerebral hemispheres collaborate to resolve the complex temporal nature of speech, such that left-hemisphere (or bilateral) gamma-band oscillatory activity would specialize in coding information at fast rates (phonemic information), whereas right-hemisphere delta- and theta-band activity would…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Perceptual Development, Speech, Cognitive Processes
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Áine Ní Choisdealbha; Adam Attaheri; Sinead Rocha; Natasha Mead; Helen Olawole-Scott; Maria Alfaro e Oliveira; Carmel Brough; Perrine Brusini; Samuel Gibbon; Panagiotis Boutris; Christina Grey; Isabel Williams; Sheila Flanagan; Usha Goswami – Developmental Science, 2024
It is known that the rhythms of speech are visible on the face, accurately mirroring changes in the vocal tract. These low-frequency visual temporal movements are tightly correlated with speech output, and both visual speech (e.g., mouth motion) and the acoustic speech amplitude envelope entrain neural oscillations. Low-frequency visual temporal…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Diagnostic Tests, Speech Communication
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Smith, Elizabeth G.; Condy, Emma; Anderson, Afrouz; Thurm, Audrey; Manwaring, Stacy S.; Swineford, Lauren; Gandjbakhche, Amir; Redcay, Elizabeth – Developmental Science, 2020
The toddler and preschool years are a time of significant development in both expressive and receptive communication abilities. However, little is known about the neurobiological underpinnings of language development during this period, likely due to difficulties acquiring functional neuroimaging data. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)…
Descriptors: Spectroscopy, Toddlers, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Speech Communication
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Panda, Erin J.; Emami, Zahra; Valiante, Taufik A.; Pang, Elizabeth W. – Developmental Science, 2021
As we listen to speech, our ability to understand what was said requires us to retrieve and bind together individual word meanings into a coherent discourse representation. This so-called semantic unification is a fundamental cognitive skill, and its development relies on the integration of neural activity throughout widely distributed functional…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Semantics, Individual Differences
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Sun, Xin; Marks, Rebecca A.; Zhang, Kehui; Yu, Chi-Lin; Eggleston, Rachel L.; Nickerson, Nia; Chou, Tai-Li; Hu, Xiao-Su; Tardif, Twila; Satterfield, Teresa; Kovelman, Ioulia – Developmental Science, 2023
How do early bilingual experiences influence children's neural architecture for word processing? Dual language acquisition can yield common influences that may be shared across different bilingual groups, as well as language-specific influences stemming from a given language pairing. To investigate these effects, we examined bilingual English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Barnes-Davis, Maria E.; Merhar, Stephanie L.; Holland, Scott K.; Kadis, Darren S. – Developmental Science, 2018
Children born extremely preterm are at significant risk for cognitive impairment, including language deficits. The relationship between preterm birth and neurological changes that underlie cognitive deficits is poorly understood. We use a stories-listening task in fMRI and MEG to characterize language network "representation" and…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Acquisition, Intellectual Disability
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Su, Mengmeng; Thiebaut de Schotten, Michel; Zhao, Jingjing; Song, Shuang; Zhou, Wei; Gong, Gaolang; McBride, Catherine; Ramus, Franck; Shu, Hua – Developmental Science, 2018
The acquisition of language involves the functional specialization of several cortical regions. Connectivity between these brain regions may also change with the development of language. Various studies have demonstrated that the arcuate fasciculus was essential for language function. Vocabulary learning is one of the most important skills in…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Children
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Liu, Janelle; Tsang, Tawny; Ponting, Carolyn; Jackson, Lisa; Jeste, Shafali S.; Bookheimer, Susan Y.; Dapretto, Mirella – Developmental Science, 2021
Word segmentation is a fundamental aspect of language learning, since identification of word boundaries in continuous speech must occur before the acquisition of word meanings can take place. We previously used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are less sensitive to statistical and…
Descriptors: Infants, At Risk Persons, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Swanson, Meghan R.; Wolff, Jason J.; Elison, Jed T.; Gu, Hongbin; Hazlett, Heather C.; Botteron, Kelly; Styner, Martin; Paterson, Sarah; Gerig, Guido; Constantino, John; Dager, Stephen; Estes, Annette; Vachet, Clement; Piven, Joseph – Developmental Science, 2017
The association between developmental trajectories of language-related white matter fiber pathways from 6 to 24 months of age and individual differences in language production at 24 months of age was investigated. The splenium of the corpus callosum, a fiber pathway projecting through the posterior hub of the default mode network to occipital…
Descriptors: Correlation, Oral Language, Infants, Individual Differences
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Ylinen, Sari; Bosseler, Alexis; Junttila, Katja; Huotilainen, Minna – Developmental Science, 2017
The ability to predict future events in the environment and learn from them is a fundamental component of adaptive behavior across species. Here we propose that inferring predictions facilitates speech processing and word learning in the early stages of language development. Twelve- and 24-month olds' electrophysiological brain responses to heard…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Acquisition, Prediction, Coding
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Cao, Fan; Brennan, Christine; Booth, James R. – Developmental Science, 2015
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined the process of language specialization in the brain by comparing developmental changes in two contrastive orthographies: Chinese and English. In a visual word rhyming judgment task, we found a significant interaction between age and language in left inferior parietal lobule and left…
Descriptors: Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Orthographic Symbols, Phonology
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