Book Chapter10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198845003.013.6
Infants’ Learning of Speech Sounds and Word-Forms
Daniel Swingley
- 14 Feb 2022
- pp 267-C13.P75
3
TL;DR: Infants' learning of speech sounds and word-forms mischaracterizes the problem and developmental process. Recent research suggests new ways to think about the beginnings of language learning and the emergence of the lexicon.
read more
Abstract: Abstract How do infants start learning their native language? This chapter reviews the conventional understanding of this problem, illustrated by a review of the most important studies in this area, and suggests that this conventional understanding mischaracterizes the problem infants solve and the developmental process by which they solve it. Recent experimental and modeling work from several labs suggest new ways to think about the beginnings of language learning and the emergence of the lexicon.
read more
Chat with Paper
AI Agents for this Paper
Find similar papers on Google Scholar, PubMed and Arxiv
Write a critical review of this paper
Analyze citations of this paper to find unaddressed research gaps
Citations
Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain
Benedetta Mariani,Giorgio Nicoletti,Giacomo Barzon,María Clemencia Ortíz Barajas,Mohinish Shukla,Ramón Guevara,Samir Suweis,Judit Gervain +7 more
TL;DR: Prenatal language experience shapes the brain, evidenced by increased long-range temporal correlations in newborns' electrophysiological activity.
Prenatal experience with language shapes the brain
B. Mariani,Giorgio Nicoletti,Giacomo Barzon,Maria Clemencia Ortiz Barajas,Mohinish Shukla,Ramón Guevara,Judit Gervain +6 more
TL;DR: The authors showed that newborns' electrophysiological activity exhibits increased long-range temporal correlations after stimulation with speech, particularly in the prenatally heard language, indicating the early emergence of brain specialization for the native language.
When Saint-Saëns’ Elephant Becomes a Child’s Raindrops: Korean Young Children’s Appreciation of Music through Drawings
Jungyoon Chang,Jinyoung Kim,Seung Yeon Lee +2 more
References
Predicting the presuppositions of soft triggers
TL;DR: Holdobler et al. as mentioned in this paper argued that presuppositions of soft triggers arise from the way our attention structures the informational content of a sentence, and that contextual cues or conversational goals can divert attention to types of information that we would not pay attention to by default.
Early Word Comprehension in Infants: Replication and Extension
Elika Bergelson,Daniel Swingley +1 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated anew that infants understand common words by 6–9 months and that performance increases substantially around 14 months, implying that 6- to 9-month-olds’ experience of spoken language includes some understanding of common words for concrete objects, but relatively impoverished comprehension of other words.
The neural basis of reversible sentence comprehension: Evidence from voxel-based lesion symptom mapping in aphasia
TL;DR: It is detected weak or no association between reversible sentence comprehension and the ventrolateral pFC, which includes Broca's area, even for syntactically complex sentences, which casts doubt on theories that presuppose a critical role for this region in syntactic computations.
Subtractive Bilingualism and the Survival of the Inuit Language: Heritage- Versus Second-Language Education
TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of early heritage and second-language education on heritage- and second language development among Inuit, White, and mixed-heritage (Inuit/White) children.
169