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ERIC Number: EJ678199
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
When Cues Collide: Use of Stress and Statistical Cues to Word Boundaries by 7- to 9-Month-Old Infants.
Thiessen, Erik D.; Saffran, Jenny R.
Developmental Psychology, v39 n4 p706-16 Jul 2003
Three experiments explored infants' attention to conflicting cues at different ages. Found when stress and statistical cues indicated different word boundaries, 9-month-olds used syllable stress as a cue to segmentation while ignoring statistical cues. Seven-month-olds attended more to statistical cues than to stress cues. Results suggested infants use statistical learning abilities to locate words in speech and use those words to discover regular patterns of stress cues in English. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention, Cues, English, Infants, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes, Performance Factors, Phonology, Stress (Phonology), Syllables
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Segmentation (Verbal); Segmentation Skills