Floccia, Caroline, Keren-Portnoy, Tamar orcid.org/0000-0002-7258-2404, DePaolis, Rory A et al. (6 more authors) (2016) British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infantdirected speech stimuli. Cognition. pp. 1-9. ISSN 0010-0277
Abstract
The word segmentation paradigm originally designed by Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) has been widely used to examine how infants from the age of 7.5 months can extract novel words from continuous speech. Here we report a series of 13 studies conducted independently in two British laboratories, showing that British English-learning infants aged 8–10.5 months fail to show evidence of word segmentation when tested in this paradigm. In only one study did we find evidence of word segmentation at 10.5 months, when we used an exaggerated infant-directed speech style. We discuss the impact of variations in infant-directed style within and across languages in the course of language acquisition.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Crown Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details |
Keywords: | Word segmentation, Infants, Infant-directed-speech, Replication, British English |
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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) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC) ES/G030871/1 |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2016 13:35 |
Last Modified: | 25 Mar 2025 00:07 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:94818 |
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