Six-Month-Old Infants' Preference for Lexical Words
Six-Month-Old Infants' Preference for Lexical Words
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六个月大婴儿对词汇的偏好
DOI:
10.1111/1467-9280.00312
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
8.2
通讯作者:
J. Werker
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文献类型:
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作者:
Rushen Shi;J. Werker
Previous work has shown that newborn infants categorically discriminate the fundamental syntactic category distinction between lexical and grammatical words. In this article, we show that by the age of 6 months, infants prefer to listen to lexical over grammatical words. In Experiment 1, infants were habituated to a list of either lexical or grammatical words, and then tested on new lists of words from the same and the contrasting categories. The infants showed recovery to lexical words after habituation to grammatical words but not vice versa. This asymmetry indicates a possible preference for lexical words. In Experiments 2 and 3, preference was assessed directly by presenting infants with alternating trials of lexical and grammatical words, in the central-fixation preference procedure. The infants looked significantly longer during lexical-word than grammatical-word trials. These results show that by 6 months, infants attend preferentially to lexical words. The implications of this emerging attentional preference for subsequent language acquisition are discussed.
DOI:
10.1044/jslhr.4104.874
发表时间:
1998
期刊:
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR
影响因子:
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作者:
Shafer,VL;Shucard,DW;Shucard,JL;Gerken,L
通讯作者:
Gerken,L
影响因子:
4.6
作者:
Cooper,RP;Aslin,RN
通讯作者:
Aslin,RN
DOI:
10.1037//0012-1649.34.6.1289
发表时间:
1998
期刊:
Developmental psychology.
影响因子:
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作者:
Werker,JF;Cohen,LB;Lloyd,VL;Casasola,M;Stager,CL
通讯作者:
Stager,CL