Six-Month-Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well-Formedness
Six-Month-Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well-Formedness
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DOI：
10.1207/s15327078in0101_11
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发表时间：
2000-01-01
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Jusczyk, Ann Marie
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作者：
Nazzi, Thierry;Nelson, Deborah G. Kemler;Jusczyk, Ann Marie
三个实验探讨了韵律结构在婴儿识别嵌入词序列中的作用。六个月大的婴儿熟悉同一序列的两个版本，一个对应于一个格式良好的韵律单元，另一个对应于一个格式不佳的韵律序列（尽管是连续的单词序列）。接下来，听两个测试段落。一个包含良构单元，另一个包含非良构序列。在实验1中，婴儿听包含结构良好单元的段落的时间更长，这表明即使嵌入了这些单元，婴儿也能更好地识别它们。实验2和3表明，这种更好的识别并不依赖于熟悉序列和它们后来的嵌入之间的声学匹配。这表明，格式良好的单位的优势至少部分是由于婴儿使用韵律来分析连续的言语。
Three experiments investigated the role of prosodic structure for infants' recognition of embedded word sequences. Six-month-olds were familiarized with 2 versions of the same sequence, 1 corresponding to a well-formed prosodic unit and the other to a prosodically ill-formed sequence (although a successive word series). Next, heard 2 test passages. One included the well-formed unit, and the other included the ill-formed sequence. In Experiment 1, infants listened longer to the passage containing the well-formed unit, suggesting that such units, even when they are embedded, are better recognized. Experiments 2 and 3 showed that this better recognition does not depend on an acoustic match between the familiarized sequences and their later embeddings. This suggests that the advantage of the well-formed unit is at least partially due to infants' use of prosody to parse continuous speech.