INFANTS PREFERENCE FOR THE PREDOMINANT STRESS PATTERNS OF ENGLISH WORDS
INFANTS PREFERENCE FOR THE PREDOMINANT STRESS PATTERNS OF ENGLISH WORDS
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb02935.x
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发表时间：
1993-06-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
REDANZ, NJ
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作者：
JUSCZYK, PW;CUTLER, A;REDANZ, NJ
语言获取的一个关键方面是词典的发展，该词典的声音和含义；但是，开发词典首先需要婴儿段的话语为单个单词。婴儿如何开始这个过程？本研究旨在研究对单词主要应力模式的敏感性可能在词汇发展中发挥作用的潜在作用。在英语中，到目前为止，大多数单词都强调了（强）初始音节。实验1我们的研究表明，到9个月的年龄，美国婴儿听取强度/弱压力模式的单词的聆听要比具有弱/强应力模式的单词更长。但是，实验2表明，对6个月大的婴儿没有对主要应力模式出现的显着偏好，这表明偏好是由于对母语的韵律特征的熟悉而发展而发展。在第三个实验中，即使语音输入被低通滤波，9个月大的孩子也表现出对强/弱模式的偏爱，这表明它们的偏好专门针对单词的韵律结构。结果共同表明，对母语中主要的压力模式的关注可能构成婴儿发展词典的过程的重要组成部分。
One critical aspect of language acquisition is the development of a lexicon that associates sounds and meanings; but developing a lexicon first requires that the infant segment utterances into individual words. How might the infant begin this process? The present study was designed to examine the potential role that sensitivity to predominant stress patterns of words might play in lexical development. In English, by far the majority of words have stressed (strong) initial syllables. Experiment 1 of our study demonstrated that by 9 months of age American infants listen significantly longer to words with strong/weak stress patterns than to words with weak/strong stress patterns. However, Experiment 2 showed that no significant preferences for the predominant stress pattern appear with 6-month-old infants, which suggests that the preference develops as a result of increasing familiarity with the prosodic features of the native language. In a third experiment, 9-month-olds showed a preference for strong/weak patterns even when the speech input was low-pass filtered, which suggests that their preference is specifically for the prosodic structure of the words. Together the results suggest that attention to predominant stress patterns in the native language may form an important part of the infant's process of developing a lexicon.