Tag: Language Development

Jan Edwards, PhD

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Legend: Fig. 1. The tokens of the determiner the for the three item types. Note the canonical formant transitions for the facilitating tokens and the steady formant values in the neutral token. Fig. 2.  Proportion looking to target from onset of the to 1250 ms after target-word onset in the two conditions. Symbols and error bars …

Infants give strong clues to language learning

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Imagine that you’ve been dropped into an unfamiliar country. People are speaking all around you. But you don’t recognize the sounds or objects surrounding you. You don’t even hear words; all the sounds are mushed together. It is very confusing.