Peter W Jusczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1463626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter W Jusczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter W |
| FAMILY NAME | Jusczyk |
| SIGNATURE | JUSCZYK P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Untersuchung der Bei Kurvenfahrt Auf Flachem Wasser Auftretenden Hydrodynamischen Kräfte Am Schiffskörper: 84. Mitteilung der VBD
Six‐Month‐Olds Comprehend Words That Refer to Parts of the Body
Comprehending spoken words requires a lexicon of sound patterns and knowledge of their referents in the world. Tincoff and Jusczyk (1999) demonstrated that 6‐month‐olds link the sound patterns “Mommy” and “Daddy” to video images of their parents, but not to other adults. This finding suggests that comprehension emerges at this young age and might take the form of very specific word‐world links, as in “Mommy” referring only to the infant’s mother …
Infants' early ability to segment the conversational speech signal predicts later language development: A retrospective analysis
Two studies examined relationships between infants' early speech processing performance and later language and cognitive outcomes. Study 1 found that performance on speech segmentation tasks before 12 months of age related to expressive vocabulary at 24 months. However, performance on other tasks was not related to 2-year vocabulary. Study 2 assessed linguistic and cognitive skills at 4-6 years of age for children who had participated in segmenta…
English-learning Infants' Segmentation of Verbs from Fluent Speech
Two experiments sought to extend the demonstration of English-learning infants' abilities to segment nouns from fluent speech to a new lexical class: verbs. Moreover, we explored whether two factors previously shown to influence noun segmentation, stress pattern (strong-weak or weak-strong) and type of initial phoneme (consonant or vowel), also influence verb segmentation. Our results establish the early emergence of verb segmentation in English:…
Early Understanding of Subject and Object Wh‐Questions
In this study, we used the splitscreen preferential looking paradigm to test 13‐, 15‐, and 20‐month‐olds' developing understanding of simple matrix what‐questions of the forms “What hit the X?” (subject‐question) and “What did the X hit?” (object‐question). Infants responded appropriately to subject‐questions by 15 months of age, and to both subject‐ and object‐questions by 20 months. At no age did infants look longer toward the object overtly me…
Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When Speech Cues Count More Than Statistics
Phonotactic cues for segmentation of fluent speech by infants
Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds: Effects of Rhythm and Familiarity
Six‐Month‐Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well‐Formedness
Three experiments investigated the role of prosodic structure for infants' recognition of embedded word sequences. Six‐month‐olds were familiarized with 2 versions of the same sequence, 1 corresponding to a well‐formed prosodic unit and the other to a prosodically ill‐formed sequence (although a successive word series). Next, infants heard 2 test passages. One included the well‐formed unit, and the other included the ill‐formed sequence. In Exper…
Phonotactic and Prosodic Effects on Word Segmentation in Infants
This research examines the issue of speech segmentation in 9-month-old infants. Two cues known to carry probabilistic information about word boundaries were investigated: Phonotactic regularity and prosodic pattern. The stimuli used in four head turn preference experiments were bisyllabic CVC.CVC nonwords bearing primary stress in either the first or the second syllable (strong/weak vs. weak/strong). Stimuli also differed with respect to the phon…
Some Beginnings of Word Comprehension in 6-Month-Olds
Previous studies of infants' comprehension of words estimated the onset of this ability at 9 months or later. However, these estimates were based on responses to names of relatively immobile, familiar objects. Comprehension of names referring to salient, animated figures (e.g., one's parents) may begin even earlier. In a test of this possibility, 6-month-olds were shown side-by-side videos of their parents while listening to the words “mommy” and…
The Beginnings of Word Segmentation in English-Learning Infants
A series of 15 experiments was conducted to explore English-learning infants' capacities to segment bisyllabic words from fluent speech. The studies in Part I focused on 7.5 month olds' abilities to segment words with strong/weak stress patterns from fluent speech. The infants demonstrated an ability to detect strong/weak target words in sentential contexts. Moreover, the findings indicated that the infants were responding to the whole words and …
Constraining the search for structure in the input
In their first year, infants develop sensitivity to specific phonetic, phonotactic, and prosodie features that are characteristic of their native language. Moreover, they are attuned to potential markers of syntactic organization that are present in the speech signal. Such studies raise questions about the range and nature of the capacities involved in the early stages of language acquisition. As speech researchers have begun to explore how infan…
Infants' sensitivity to word boundaries in fluent speech
Infants' sensitivity to word units in fluent speech was examined by inserting 1 sec pauses either at boundaries between successive words (Coincident versions) or between syllables within words (Noncoincident versions). In Experiment 1, 24 11-month-olds listened significantly longer to the Coincident versions. In Experiment 2, 24 four-and-a-half-and 24 nine-month-olds did not exhibit the preference for the Coincident versions that the 11-month-old…
The head-turn preference procedure for testing auditory perception
Do English-Learning Infants use Syllable Weight to Determine Stress
A linguistic factor governing the assignment of English lexical stress is syllable weight. Heavy syllables which have either a long (tense) vowel or are closed with a consonant are heavy and automatically bear stress. Are infants sensitive to this aspect of the English stress system? Previous research by Jusczyk, Cutler, and Redanz (1993) showed that nine-month-olds listened longer to words exhibiting Strong-Weak than Weak-Strong stress pattern. …
Infants′ Sensitivity to Phonotactic Patterns in the Native Language
Infants' Preference for the Predominant Stress Patterns of English Words
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Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life
From general to language-specific capacities: The WRAPSA Model of how speech perception develops
Some reflections on developmental changes in speech perception and production
Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants
The role of attention in speech perception by young infants
Infants’ Perception of Phrase Structure in Music
A visual preference procedure was used to examine 6- and 41/2-monthold infants’ sensitivity to phrase structure in music. Sections of Mozart minuets were divided into segments that either did or did not correspond to the phrase structure of the music. Infants in both age groups listened significantly longer to the appropriately segmented versions. Their behavior accorded well with judgments of the same materials made by adults, suggesting that pr…
How the prosodic cues in motherese might assist language learning
The function of motherese has become a pivotal issue in the language-learning literature. The current research takes the approach of asking whether the prosodic characteristics that are distinctive to motherese could play a special role in facilitating the acquisition of syntax. Hirsh-Pasek, Kemler Nelson, Jusczyk, Cassidy, Druss & Kennedy (1987) showed that infants aged 0;7–0;10 are sensitive to prosodic cues that would help them segment the spe…
From general to language-specific capacities: The WRAPSA Model of how speech perception develops
Infants' early ability to segment the conversational speech signal predicts later language development: A retrospective analysis
Two studies examined relationships between infants' early speech processing performance and later language and cognitive outcomes. Study 1 found that performance on speech segmentation tasks before 12 months of age related to expressive vocabulary at 24 months. However, performance on other tasks was not related to 2-year vocabulary. Study 2 assessed linguistic and cognitive skills at 4-6 years of age for children who had participated in segmenta…
Representation of speech sounds by young infants
English-learning Infants' Segmentation of Verbs from Fluent Speech
Two experiments sought to extend the demonstration of English-learning infants' abilities to segment nouns from fluent speech to a new lexical class: verbs. Moreover, we explored whether two factors previously shown to influence noun segmentation, stress pattern (strong-weak or weak-strong) and type of initial phoneme (consonant or vowel), also influence verb segmentation. Our results establish the early emergence of verb segmentation in English:…
Rhymes and reasons: Some aspects of the child's appreciation of poetic form
Constraining the search for structure in the input
In their first year, infants develop sensitivity to specific phonetic, phonotactic, and prosodie features that are characteristic of their native language. Moreover, they are attuned to potential markers of syntactic organization that are present in the speech signal. Such studies raise questions about the range and nature of the capacities involved in the early stages of language acquisition. As speech researchers have begun to explore how infan…
Do English-Learning Infants use Syllable Weight to Determine Stress
A linguistic factor governing the assignment of English lexical stress is syllable weight. Heavy syllables which have either a long (tense) vowel or are closed with a consonant are heavy and automatically bear stress. Are infants sensitive to this aspect of the English stress system? Previous research by Jusczyk, Cutler, and Redanz (1993) showed that nine-month-olds listened longer to words exhibiting Strong-Weak than Weak-Strong stress pattern. …
Viewing The Development of Speech Perception As An Innately Guided Learning Process
The present paper examines the issue of how speech sounds may be treated by infants as special signals relative to other kinds of acoustic stimuli. Consideration is given to the view that the mechanisms underlying the infant's perception of speech are specialized for this purpose. Some of the difficulties of providing definitive evidence for or against this position are noted. Then the thesis is advanced that special processing of speech may lie …
Some reflections on developmental changes in speech perception and production
Speech Perception in Infants
Discrimination of synthetic speech sounds was studied in 1- and 4-month-old infants. The speech sounds varied along an acoustic dimension previously shown to cue phonemic distinctions among the voiced and voiceless stop consonants in adults. Discriminability was measured by an increase in conditioned response rate to a second speech sound after habituation to the first speech sound. Recovery from habituation was greater for a given acoustic diffe…
Rhymes and reasons: Some aspects of the child's appreciation of poetic form
Linguistic experience and infant speech perception: A re-examination of Eilers, Gavin & Oller (1982)
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Clauses are perceptual units for young infants
Representation of speech sounds by young infants
A precursor of language acquisition in young infants
Viewing The Development of Speech Perception As An Innately Guided Learning Process
The present paper examines the issue of how speech sounds may be treated by infants as special signals relative to other kinds of acoustic stimuli. Consideration is given to the view that the mechanisms underlying the infant's perception of speech are specialized for this purpose. Some of the difficulties of providing definitive evidence for or against this position are noted. Then the thesis is advanced that special processing of speech may lie …
How the prosodic cues in motherese might assist language learning
The function of motherese has become a pivotal issue in the language-learning literature. The current research takes the approach of asking whether the prosodic characteristics that are distinctive to motherese could play a special role in facilitating the acquisition of syntax. Hirsh-Pasek, Kemler Nelson, Jusczyk, Cassidy, Druss & Kennedy (1987) showed that infants aged 0;7–0;10 are sensitive to prosodic cues that would help them segment the spe…
The role of attention in speech perception by young infants
Infants’ Perception of Phrase Structure in Music
A visual preference procedure was used to examine 6- and 41/2-monthold infants’ sensitivity to phrase structure in music. Sections of Mozart minuets were divided into segments that either did or did not correspond to the phrase structure of the music. Infants in both age groups listened significantly longer to the appropriately segmented versions. Their behavior accorded well with judgments of the same materials made by adults, suggesting that pr…
Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants
Infants' Preference for the Predominant Stress Patterns of English Words
n Contains fulltext :\n 5993.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life
From general to language-specific capacities: The WRAPSA Model of how speech perception develops
Some reflections on developmental changes in speech perception and production
Infants′ Sensitivity to Phonotactic Patterns in the Native Language
The head-turn preference procedure for testing auditory perception
Do English-Learning Infants use Syllable Weight to Determine Stress
A linguistic factor governing the assignment of English lexical stress is syllable weight. Heavy syllables which have either a long (tense) vowel or are closed with a consonant are heavy and automatically bear stress. Are infants sensitive to this aspect of the English stress system? Previous research by Jusczyk, Cutler, and Redanz (1993) showed that nine-month-olds listened longer to words exhibiting Strong-Weak than Weak-Strong stress pattern. …
Infants' sensitivity to word boundaries in fluent speech
Infants' sensitivity to word units in fluent speech was examined by inserting 1 sec pauses either at boundaries between successive words (Coincident versions) or between syllables within words (Noncoincident versions). In Experiment 1, 24 11-month-olds listened significantly longer to the Coincident versions. In Experiment 2, 24 four-and-a-half-and 24 nine-month-olds did not exhibit the preference for the Coincident versions that the 11-month-old…
Constraining the search for structure in the input
In their first year, infants develop sensitivity to specific phonetic, phonotactic, and prosodie features that are characteristic of their native language. Moreover, they are attuned to potential markers of syntactic organization that are present in the speech signal. Such studies raise questions about the range and nature of the capacities involved in the early stages of language acquisition. As speech researchers have begun to explore how infan…
Phonotactic and Prosodic Effects on Word Segmentation in Infants
This research examines the issue of speech segmentation in 9-month-old infants. Two cues known to carry probabilistic information about word boundaries were investigated: Phonotactic regularity and prosodic pattern. The stimuli used in four head turn preference experiments were bisyllabic CVC.CVC nonwords bearing primary stress in either the first or the second syllable (strong/weak vs. weak/strong). Stimuli also differed with respect to the phon…
Some Beginnings of Word Comprehension in 6-Month-Olds
Previous studies of infants' comprehension of words estimated the onset of this ability at 9 months or later. However, these estimates were based on responses to names of relatively immobile, familiar objects. Comprehension of names referring to salient, animated figures (e.g., one's parents) may begin even earlier. In a test of this possibility, 6-month-olds were shown side-by-side videos of their parents while listening to the words “mommy” and…
The Beginnings of Word Segmentation in English-Learning Infants
A series of 15 experiments was conducted to explore English-learning infants' capacities to segment bisyllabic words from fluent speech. The studies in Part I focused on 7.5 month olds' abilities to segment words with strong/weak stress patterns from fluent speech. The infants demonstrated an ability to detect strong/weak target words in sentential contexts. Moreover, the findings indicated that the infants were responding to the whole words and …
Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds: Effects of Rhythm and Familiarity
Six‐Month‐Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech: Effects of Prosodic Well‐Formedness
Three experiments investigated the role of prosodic structure for infants' recognition of embedded word sequences. Six‐month‐olds were familiarized with 2 versions of the same sequence, 1 corresponding to a well‐formed prosodic unit and the other to a prosodically ill‐formed sequence (although a successive word series). Next, infants heard 2 test passages. One included the well‐formed unit, and the other included the ill‐formed sequence. In Exper…
Psychology (31 works) · Language Development and Disorders (29 works) · Linguistics (26 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (22 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Cognitive psychology (16 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (14 works) · Perception (11 works) · Speech recognition (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works)