Successful Word Recognition by 10‐Month‐Olds Given Continuous Speech Both at Initial Exposure and Test |
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| Authors: | Caroline Junge Anne Cutler Peter Hagoort |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Amsterdam;2. MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney;3. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics;4. Donders Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen |
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| Abstract: | Most words that infants hear occur within fluent speech. To compile a vocabulary, infants therefore need to segment words from speech contexts. This study is the first to investigate whether infants (here: 10‐month‐olds) can recognize words when both initial exposure and test presentation are in continuous speech. Electrophysiological evidence attests that this indeed occurs: An increased extended negativity (word recognition effect) appears for familiarized target words relative to control words. This response proved constant at the individual level: Only infants who showed this negativity at test had shown such a response, within six repetitions after first occurrence, during familiarization. |
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