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ERIC Number: EJ595715
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Publication Date: 1999
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Newborn Infants' Sensitivity to Perceptual Cues to Lexical and Grammatical Words.
Shi, Rushen; Werker, Janet F.; Morgan, James L.
Cognition, v72 n2 pB11-B21 Sep 30 1999
Presented neonates with lexical and grammatical words prepared from natural maternal speech. Found that neonates could categorically discriminate the sets based on a constellation of perceptual cues that distinguished them. Suggested that this ability to discriminate words on basis of multiple acoustic/phonological cues provides a perceptual base to help older infants acquire grammatical categories and syntactic structure. (Author/KB)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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