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Successful Word Recognition by 10‐Month‐Olds Given Continuous Speech Both at Initial Exposure and Test
Author(s) -
Junge Caroline,
Cutler Anne,
Hagoort Peter
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
infancy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.361
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1532-7078
pISSN - 1525-0008
DOI - 10.1111/infa.12040
Subject(s) - psychology , vocabulary , word (group theory) , test (biology) , cognitive psychology , audiology , linguistics , developmental psychology , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , biology
Most words that infants hear occur within fluent speech. To compile a vocabulary, infants therefore need to segment words from speech contexts. This study is the first to investigate whether infants (here: 10‐month‐olds) can recognize words when both initial exposure and test presentation are in continuous speech. Electrophysiological evidence attests that this indeed occurs: An increased extended negativity (word recognition effect) appears for familiarized target words relative to control words. This response proved constant at the individual level: Only infants who showed this negativity at test had shown such a response, within six repetitions after first occurrence, during familiarization.