Margaret Cychosz,Benjamin Munson,Jan R Edwards
Margaret Cychosz
Much research in child speech development suggests that young children coarticulate more than adults. There are multiple, not mutually-exclusive, explanations for this pattern. For example, children may coarticulate more because they are li...
An object lesson: Objects, non-objects, and the power of conceptual construal in adjective extension [0.03%]
一个教学实例：名词、非名词及形容词外延的概念构建能力
Alexander LaTourrette,Sandra R Waxman
Alexander LaTourrette
Despite the seemingly simple mapping between adjectives and perceptual properties (e.g., color, texture), preschool children have difficulty establishing the appropriate extension of novel adjectives. When children hear a novel adjective ap...
Tianlin Wang,Christine E Potter,Jenny R Saffran
Tianlin Wang
Adults typically struggle to perceive non-native sound contrasts, especially those that conflict with their first language. Do the same challenges persist when the sound contrasts overlap but do not conflict? To address this question, we ex...
Nouns and verbs in parent input in American Sign Language during interaction among deaf dyads [0.03%]
美国手语中聋人互动过程中父母输入的名词和动词
Zoe Fieldsteel,Aiken Bottoms,Amy M Lieberman
Zoe Fieldsteel
Parent input during interaction with young children varies across languages and contexts with regard to the relative number of words from different lexical categories, particularly nouns and verbs. Previous work has focused on spoken langua...
Angela Xiaoxue He,Maxwell Kon,Sudha Arunachalam
Angela Xiaoxue He
Linguistic contexts provide useful information about verb meanings by narrowing the space of candidate concepts. Intuitively, the more information, the better. For example, "the tall girl is fezzing," as compared to "the girl is fezzing," p...
Reconsidering retrieval effects on adult regularization of inconsistent variation in language [0.03%]
重新考虑检索效应在成人语言不一致变异规则化中的作用
Carla L Hudson Kam
Carla L Hudson Kam
The phenomenon of regularization - learners imposing systematicity on inconsistent variation in language input - is complex. Studies show that children are more likely to regularize than adults, but adults will also regularize under certain...
Visual Sonority Modulates Infants' Attraction to Sign Language [0.03%]
视觉声音调节婴儿对 sign language（手语）的吸引力
Adam Stone,Laura-Ann Petitto,Rain Bosworth
Adam Stone
The infant brain may be predisposed to identify perceptually salient cues that are common to both signed and spoken languages. Recent theory based on spoken languages has advanced sonority as one of these potential language acquisition cues...
Loukia Taxitari,Katherine E Twomey,Gert Westermann et al.
Loukia Taxitari et al.
In this series of experiments, we tested the limits of young infants' word learning and generalization abilities in light of recent findings reporting sophisticated word learning abilities in the first year of life. Ten-month-old infants we...
Learning phonology from surface distributions, considering Dutch and English vowel duration [0.03%]
从表面分布学习音系学，以荷兰语和英语元音持续时间为例
Daniel Swingley
Daniel Swingley
In learning language, children must discover how to interpret the linguistic significance of phonetic variation. On some accounts, receptive phonology is grounded in perceptual learning of phonetic categories from phonetic distributions dra...
Look at Mommy: An Exploratory Study of Attention-Related Communication in Mothers of Toddlers at Risk for Autism [0.03%]
观察妈妈：关于幼儿自闭症风险背景下母亲注意力相关交流的探索性研究
Karen P Jakubowski,Jana M Iverson
Karen P Jakubowski
Attentional difficulties are evident in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Accordingly, mothers of children with ASD may modify communication to direct their child's attention, and this pattern may generalize to later-born childr...