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St. Pierre, Thomas; Cooper, Angela; Johnson, Elizabeth K. – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Over time, people who spend a lot of time together (e.g., roommates) begin sounding alike. Even over the course of short conversations, interlocutors often become more acoustically similar to one another. This phenomenon -- known as phonetic alignment -- has been well studied in adult interactions, but much less is known about alignment patterns…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Task Analysis
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Messenger, Katherine; Yuan, Sylvia; Fisher, Cynthia – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Children recruit verb syntax to guide verb interpretation. We asked whether 22-month-olds spontaneously encode information about a particular novel verb's syntactic properties through listening to sentences, retain this information in long-term memory over a filled delay, and retrieve it to guide interpretation upon hearing the same novel verb…
Descriptors: Verbs, Syntax, Toddlers, Language Acquisition