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ERIC Number: EJ561725
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
Six-Month-Olds' Categorization of Natural Infant-Directed Utterances.
Moore, David S.; Spence, Melanie J.; Katz, Gary S.
Developmental Psychology, v33 n6 p980-89 Nov 1997
Two experiments examined 6-month olds' ability to categorize natural infant-directed utterances. Infants heard seven different tokens from one class of utterance (comforting, approving). Findings indicated that infants who later heard a test stimulus from the unfamiliar class showed response recovery, whereas those who heard a novel stimulus from the familiar class did not. Infants could discriminate between tokens within categories. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Caregiver Speech, Classification, Cognitive Development, Habituation, Infant Behavior, Infants, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Perception
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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