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Direct linkCurtin, Suzanne; Campbell, Jennifer; Hufnagle, Dan – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
We investigated the effect of lexical stress on 16-month-olds' ability to form associations between labels and paths of motion. Disyllabic English nouns tend to have a strong-weak (trochaic) stress pattern, and verbs tend to have a weak-strong (iambic) pattern. We explored whether infants would use word stress information to guide word-action…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Nouns, Infants, Organizations (Groups)
Curtin, Suzanne – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In this study, we examined the nature of infants' representations of newly encountered word forms. Using a word-object association task, we taught 14-month-olds novel three-syllable words differing in segments and stress patterns. At test, we manipulated the stress pattern of the word or the position of the stressed syllable in the word. Our…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Syllables, Infants, Intonation
