Faster Orientation Latencies Toward Native Language in Two-Month-Old Infants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10254689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Dehaene-Lambertz (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Paris, Service de Neuropédiatrie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, and University of Oregon), Ghislaine Dehaene‐Lambertz (0000-0003-2221-9081, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, corresponding author), D Houston (University of Oregon), David A Houston |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-43 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383099804100102 |
| OpenAlex | W1897201258 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 25 |
There is increasing evidence that infants can discriminate native and non-native speech from an early age. Prosody may be essential to this ability. In this paper, we assess the amount of linguistic information needed by 2-month-old infants to recognize whether or not a sentence belongs to their native language. We conducted a cross-linguistic study of French and American 2-month-old infants, measuring the latency of the first ocular saccade toward a loudspeaker playing short French and English utterances. The results indicated a significant interaction between the infants' nationality and the language of the stimuli. Infants oriented faster to their native language, even when the utterances were short (1.2 s mean). However, eliminating the prosodic organization (scrambled words condition) of the sentences, neutralized the effect. The results confirm that prosody plays a predominant role when young infants process continuous speech, and that short utterances are sufficient to recognize a language as long as prosodic information is present and coherent across the utterance
Developmental psychology · First language · Language development · Linguistics · Mean length of utterance · Prosody · Sentence · Utterance · Child and Animal Learning Development · Infant Health and Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.42 |
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2018 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |