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Direct linkShafto, Carissa L.; Conway, Christopher M.; Field, Suzanne L.; Houston, Derek M. – Infancy, 2012
Research suggests that nonlinguistic sequence learning abilities are an important contributor to language development (Conway, Bauernschmidt, Huang, & Pisoni, 2010). The current study investigated visual sequence learning (VSL) as a possible predictor of vocabulary development in infants. Fifty-eight 8.5-month-old infants were presented with a…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Language Research, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
Havy, Melanie; Nazzi, Thierry – Infancy, 2009
Previous research using the name-based categorization task has shown that 20-month-old infants can simultaneously learn 2 words that only differ by 1 consonantal feature but fail to do so when the words only differ by 1 vocalic feature. This asymmetry was taken as evidence for the proposal that consonants are more important than vowels at the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Phonemes, Foreign Countries
Singh, Leher; Nestor, Sarah; Parikh, Chandni; Yull, Ashley – Infancy, 2009
When addressing infants, many adults adopt a particular type of speech, known as infant-directed speech (IDS). IDS is characterized by exaggerated intonation, as well as reduced speech rate, shorter utterance duration, and grammatical simplification. It is commonly asserted that IDS serves in part to facilitate language learning. Although…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Recognition, Long Term Memory, Verbal Stimuli
