Learning Sound Patterns - Where Are the Words?
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On which theory is our infant cognition based on?
One simple observation: when babies are faced with new sounds or images, they devote their attention to them differently than when they hear/see old, familiar sounds or images
What is one commonly used technique that is used to give insights about baby habits?
- compares how long babies keep their heads turned toward different stimuli, which is used to measure their attention
What do they mean by the "test phase" when studying baby habits?
Period in which subjects’ responses to the critical experimental stimuli is tested after the familiarization phase. Responses to familiar stimuli are compared with responses to unfamiliar stimuli.
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What does it mean when babies spend more or less time looking at the previously presented word than they with the new word?
However: if the attention is equal it suggests they did not learn enough to differentiate
Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) used the head-turn paradigm to tackle what question?
During the test phase of Jusczyk and Aslin, it was measured how long the babies were interested in the word bike in comparison to unknown words like dog. What did they use to get their attention?
What did the study of Jusczyk and Aslin show?
7.5 months babies are equipped with some ability to separate or segment words from the speech stream. However, the study does not show how they manage those skills and how the researchers decided the words
What did Heather Bortfeld (2005) find about 6 months old, when using the head-turn preference paradigm?
What kind of intuition do babies have, next to their sound stream trick?
What exactly do they mean with phonotactic constraints?
What happens with a word with trochaic stress pattern?
the first syllable is stressed (as in BLACKmail)
What happens with a word with iambic stress pattern?
the first syllable is unstressed (as in reTURN).
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