Six‐month‐old infants recognize phrases in song and speech
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16783145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lewis Edwin Hahn (0000-0002-3559-5687, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), Titia Benders (0000-0003-0143-2182, Macquarie University), Tineke M Snijders (0000-0002-2442-0451, Radboud University Nijmegen), Paula Fikkert (0000-0001-7317-2100, Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 699-718 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Infancy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1525-0008 • E-ISSN: 1532-7078 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/infa.12357 |
| PMID | 32794372 |
| OpenAlex | W3049609422 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 72 |
Infants exploit acoustic boundaries to perceptually organize phrases in speech. This prosodic parsing ability is well‐attested and is a cornerstone to the development of speech perception and grammar. However, infants also receive linguistic input in child songs. This study provides evidence that infants parse songs into meaningful phrasal units and replicates previous research for speech. Six‐month‐old Dutch infants (n = 80) were tested in the song or speech modality in the head‐turn preference procedure. First, infants were familiarized to two versions of the same word sequence: One version represented a well‐formed unit, and the other contained a phrase boundary halfway through. At test, infants were presented two passages, each containing one version of the familiarized sequence. The results for speech replicated the previously observed preference for the passage containing the well‐formed sequence, but only in a more fine‐grained analysis. The preference for well‐formed phrases was also observed in the song modality, indicating that infants recognize phrase structure in song. There were acoustic differences between stimuli of the current and previous studies, suggesting that infants are flexible in their processing of boundary cues while also providing a possible explanation for differences in effect sizes
Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Parsing · Perception · Phrase · Phrase structure rules · Preference · Speech recognition · Communication · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
Prosodic Phonology
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Calculating and reporting effect sizes to facilitate cumulative science
G*Power 3
Random effects structure for confirmatory hypothesis testing
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Can prosody be used to discover hierarchical structure in continuous speech
Infants’ Perception of Phrase Structure in Music
Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants
Clause Segmentation by 6‐Month‐Old Infants
Six‐Month‐Olds' Detection of Clauses Embedded in Continuous Speech
Singing Delays the Onset of Infant Distress
Sensitivity to Visual Prosodic Cues in Signers and Nonsigners
Mothers' and fathers' singing to infants
Statistical treatment of looking-time data
A generative theory of tonal music
A prosody tutorial for investigators of auditory sentence processing
An Advantage for Perceptual Edges in Young Infants' Memory for Speech
Input to Language
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |