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Butler, Joseph; Vigário, Marina; Frota, Sónia – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Infants perceive intonation contrasts early in development in contrast to lexical stress but similarly to lexical pitch accent. Previous studies have mostly focused on pitch height/direction contrasts; however, languages use a variety of pitch features to signal meaning, including differences in pitch timing. In this study, we investigate infants'…
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Perception, Intonation, Cues
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Galle, Marcus E.; Apfelbaum, Keith S.; McMurray, Bob – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Recent work has demonstrated that the addition of multiple talkers during habituation improves 14-month-olds' performance in the switch task (Rost & McMurray, 2009). While the authors suggest that this boost in performance is due to the increase in acoustic variability (Rost & McMurray, 2010), it is also possible that there is…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Infants, Acoustics, Auditory Stimuli