Abstraction and specificity in preschoolers' representations of novel spoken words

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Language acquisition research with preschool children suggests there is a powerful learning mechanism supporting auditory word priming which plays a crucial role in developing an auditory lexicon. Children's representations of new spoken words included abstract components common to changes in word token and phonetic context, and specific to original tokens.

Language and languages, Memory, Preschool children, Abstraction, Word recognition

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Less really is more for adults learning a miniature artificial language

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Issues concerning language acquisition are examined, focusing on experiments that indicate language may be better acquired if learners first become familiar with only segments of a language, such as words, before being exposed to the full complexity of a language.

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Word segmentation by 8-month-olds: when speech cues count more than statistics

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Speech cues were given more weight than statistical cues by 8-month-old infants in a series of experiments on word segmentation. Prosodic stress cues and coarticulation were the speech cues pitted against statistical cues; familiarity effects were also examined.

Word (Linguistics), Words, Speech perception in children, Childhood speech perception

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