When Half a Word Is Enough: Infants Can Recognize Spoken Words Using Partial Phonetic Information

Child Development

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1003-1015

  Fernald, Anne ^a   Swingley, Daniel ^b   Pinto, John P ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c Interval Research Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0035406536     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00331     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Allopenna, P. D., Magnuson, J. S., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (1998). Tracking the time course of spoken word recognition using eye movements: Evidence for continuous mapping models. Journal of Memory and Language, 38, 419-439.
2. Bates, E., Bretherton, I., & Snyder, L. (1988). From first words to grammar: Individual differences and dissociable mechanisms. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
3. Bates, E., & MacWhinney, B. (1987). Competition, variation, and language learning. In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), Mechanisms of language learning. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
4. Bloom, L. (1993). The transition from infancy to language: Acquiring the power of expression. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
5. Canfield, R. L., Smith, E. G., Brezsnyak, M. P., & Snow, K. L. (1997). Information processing through the first year of life: A longitudinal study using the visual expectation paradigm. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 39(2, Serial No. 158).
6. Caplan, D., & Waters, G. S. (1999). Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 77-126.
7. Charles-Luce, J., & Luce, P. A. (1990). Similarity neighbourhoods of words in young children's lexicons. Journal of Child Language, 17, 205-215.
8. Cole, R. A. (1981). Perception of fluent speech by children and adults. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 379, 92-109.
9. Cole, R. A., & Jakimik, J. (1980). A model of speech perception. In R. A. Cole (Ed.), Perception and production of fluent speech. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
10. Connine, C. M., Blasko, D. G., & Titone, D. (1993). Do the beginnings of spoken words have a special status in auditory word recognition? Journal of Memory and Language, 32, 391-210.
11. Dapretto, M., & Bjork, E. L. (2000). The development of word retrieval abilities in the second year and its relation to early vocabulary growth. Child Development, 71, 635-648.
12. Fenson, L., Dale, P. S., Reznick, J. S., Bates, E., Thal, D. J., & Pethicke, S. J. (1994). Variability in early communicative development. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 59(5, Serial No. 242).
13. Fernald, A., Pinto, J. P., Swingley, D., Weinberg, A., & McRoberts, G. W. (1998). Rapid gains in speed of verbal processing by infants in the 2nd year. Psychological Science, 9, 228-231.
14. Gopnik, A., & Meltzoff, A. (1987). The development of categorization in the second year and its relation to other cognitive and linguistic developments. Child Development, 58, 1523-1531.
15. Grosjean, F. (1985). The recognition of words after their acoustic offset: Evidence and implications. Perception and Psychophysics, 38, 299-310.
16. Haith, M. M., Wentworth, N., & Canfield, R. L. (1993). The formation of expectations in early infancy. Advances in Infancy Research, 8, 251-297.
17. Harris, M., Yeles, C., Chasin, J., & Oakley, Y. (1995). Symmetries and asymmetries in early lexical comprehension and production. Journal of Child Language, 22, 1-18.
18. Hood, B. M., & Atkinson, J. (1993). Disengaging visual attention in the infant and adult. Infant Behavior and Development, 16, 405-422.
19. Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (1992). A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory. Psychological Review, 99, 122-149.
20. Marslen-Wilson, W. D. (1987). Functional parallelism in spoken word-recognition. Cognition, 25, 71-102.
21. Marslen-Wilson, W., & Zwitserlood, P. (1989). Accessing spoken words: The importance of word onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 15, 576-585.
22. McClelland, J. L., & Elman, J. L. (1986). The TRACE model of speech perception. Cognitive Psychology, 18, 1-86.
23. Norris, D., McQueen, J. M., Cutler, A., & Butterfield, S. (1997). The possible-word constraint in the segmentation of continuous speech. Cognitive Psychology, 34, 191-243.
24. Sound Edit 16 (Version 2) [Computer software]. (1996). San Francisco, CA: Macromedia.
25. Stager, C. L., & Werker, J. F. (1997). Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word learning tasks. Nature, 388, 381-382.
26. Swingley, D., & Aslin, R. N. (2000). Spoken word recognition and lexical representation in very young children. Cognition, 76, 147-166.
27. Swingley, D., & Fernald, A. (in press). Recognition of words referring to present and absent objects by 24-month-olds. Journal of Memory and Language.
28. Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (1998). Assessing the speed and accuracy of word recognition in infants. In C. Rovee-Collier, L. P. Lipsitt, & H. Hayne (Eds.), Advances in infancy research (Vol. 12, pp. 257-277). Stamford, CT: Ablex.
29. Swingley, D., Pinto, J. P., & Fernald, A. (1999). Continuous processing in word recognition at 24 months. Cognition, 71, 73-108.
30. Walley, A. C. (1987). Young children's detections of word-initial and word-final mispronunciations in constrained and unconstrained contexts. Cognitive Development, 2, 145-167.
31. Walley, A. C. (1988). Spoken word recognition by young children and adults. Cognitive Development, 3, 137-165.
32. Walley, A. C. (1993). The role of vocabulary development in children's spoken word recognition and segmentation ability. Developmental Review, 13, 286-350.