Vihman, M.M., Nakai, S., DePaolis, R.A. et al. (1 more author) (2004) The role of accentual pattern in early lexical representation. Journal of Memory and Language, 50 (3). pp. 336-353. ISSN 0749-596X
Abstract
The interaction between prosodic and segmental aspects of infant representations for speech was explored using the head-turn paradigm, with untrained everyday familiar words and phrases as stimuli. At 11 months English-learning infants, like French infants (Hallé & Boysson-Bardies, 1994), attended significantly longer to a list of familiar lexical items than to a phonetically comparable rare list, but 9-month-olds did not. Reversing the stress pattern of the familiar items failed to block word-form recognition in 11-month-olds, although a time-course analysis showed that it delayed the infant response. Changing the initial consonant of English words did block word recognition while change to the second consonant did not. Time-course analyses of both the English and the original French data showed that altering the consonant of the unaccented syllable delays word-form recognition in both languages while change to the accented syllable has a stronger effect in English than in French.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
Date Deposited: | 20 Apr 2009 09:34 |
Last Modified: | 20 Apr 2009 09:34 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2003.11.004 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jml.2003.11.004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:6747 |