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Direct linkSlattery, Timothy J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
An eye movement experiment was conducted to investigate whether the processing of a word can be affected by its higher frequency neighbor (HFN). Target words with an HFN (birch) or without one (spruce) were embedded into 2 types of sentence frames: 1 in which the HFN (birth) could fit given the prior sentence context, and 1 in which it could not.…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Word Recognition, Word Frequency
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
