Frequency and form as determinants of functor sensitivity in English-acquiring infants | Zendy

Rushen Shi | Zendy; Anne Cutler | Zendy; Janet F. Werker | Zendy; Marisa Cruickshank | Zendy

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Frequency and form as determinants of functor sensitivity in English-acquiring infants

Author(s) -

Rushen Shi,

Anne Cutler,

Janet F. Werker,

Marisa Cruickshank

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.2198947

Subject(s) - functor , noun , representation (politics) , mathematics , vocabulary , linguistics , computer science , natural language processing , pure mathematics , arithmetic , philosophy , politics , political science , law

High-frequency functors are arguably among the earliest perceived word forms and may assist extraction of initial vocabulary items. Canadian 11- and 8-month-olds were familiarized to pseudo-nouns following either a high-frequency functor the or a low-frequency functor her versus phonetically similar mispronunciations of each, kuh and ler, and then tested for recognition of the pseudo-nouns. A preceding the (but not kuh, her, ler) facilitated extraction of the pseudo-nouns for 11-month-olds; the is thus well-specified in form for these infants. However, both the and kuh (but not her-ler) facilitated segmentation for 8-month-olds, suggesting an initial underspecified representation of high-frequency functors.

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