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An Advantage for Perceptual Edges in Young Infants' Memory for Speech
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Hochmann, Jean-Rémy; Langus, Alan; Mehler, Jacques – Language Learning, 2016
Models of language acquisition are constrained by the information that learners can extract from their input. Experiment 1 investigated whether 3-month-old infants are able to encode a repeated, unsegmented sequence of five syllables. Event-related-potentials showed that infants reacted to a change of the initial or the final syllable, but not to…
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition, Syllables