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Infant speech recognition in multisyllabic contexts.
Child Dev ; 55(3): 903-10, 1984 Jun.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-6734325
In 2 infant speech recognition experiments using trisyllabic sequences, the amount of redundancy within nontarget, context syllables was manipulated. Infants 6 1/2 months old were trained to discriminate the syllables [ba] versus [du] in contexts that were either redundant (e.g., [ko ba ko] or [ti ba ti]) or mixed (e.g., [ko ba ti] or [ti ba ko]) A visually reinforced head-turning procedure was employed. In Experiment 1, context was manipulated between subjects, but in Experiment 2 each subject received all 4 contexts (2 redundant, 2 mixed). Infants consistently recognized the familiar target in all contexts, but did so more successfully in redundant than in mixed trisyllablic contexts. These results suggest that amount of speech redundancy may be an important factor in infants' perceptual capabilities.
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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Semantics / Speech Perception / Psychology, Child Limits: Female / Humans / Infant / Male Language: En Journal: Child Dev Year: 1984 Document type: Article Country of publication: United States
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Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Semantics / Speech Perception / Psychology, Child Limits: Female / Humans / Infant / Male Language: En Journal: Child Dev Year: 1984 Document type: Article Country of publication: United States