Nine-month-olds use frequency of onset clusters to segment novel words

Archer, Stephanie L.; Curtin, Suzanne

doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2016.04.004

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“…Sensitivity to statistical regularities is essential to abstracting meaning from the environment as well as to tracking ongoing changes in the environment [ 2 ]. Such sensitivity can be shown in infants as young as 8-months old [ 3 – 6 ]. Through long-term exposure, statistical regularities may be internalized as schemas, providing a framework for the organization and processing of ongoing and novel events [ 7 , 8 ].…”

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The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure

2020

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Introduction To survive, organisms need to organize perceptual input into coherent, usable structures. Research has illuminated the potential role of frequency of occurrence and duration as cues to extract statistical regularities from our environment. Musical stimuli provide a unique opportunity to study how these cues are used to organize auditory input into higher level perceptual entities, i.e., pitch structure, and to assess the influence of cognitive schema. Methods To examine the relative importance of these two cues in pitch structure perception, we constructed novel tone sequences in which frequency of occurrence and duration cues were pitted against each other. We assessed perceived pitch structure in musically trained and untrained listeners using a probe tone paradigm. Results In all experiments, a 3-tiered hierarchy of pitch structure emerged, with highest ratings for tones of longer duration, next highest for shorter, more frequent tones and lowest for probe tones that did not occur in the sequence. The hierarchy did not reflect assimilation to Western tonal schema. Discussion Our results argue against theories positing the same mechanism for the processing of duration and frequency of occurrence, and that duration is weighted preferentially. We further suggest that the organization of perceptual information will proceed according to whatever information is relevant, available, and most easily acquired.

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The role of duration and frequency of occurrence in perceived pitch structure

2020

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“…At the word level, studies document early sensitivity to the role of lexical stress (e.g., Curtin, 2009; Archer & Curtin, 2016), although production of lexical stress seems to lag (Ota, 2016, p. 70; Kehoe, 1997; Lleó & Arias, 2006; but see Kehoe, Stoel-Gammon & Buder, 1995; Hochberg, 1988; Prieto, Estrella, Thorson & Vanrell, 2012). In languages that use pitch at the lexical level, like Japanese and Mandarin, studies have reported variation among ages of acquisition.…”

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Can prosody encode recursive embedding? Children's realizations of complex NPs in Japanese

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Recursive NPs are difficult to produce and late to emerge. We compare prosodic and syntactic abilities in Japanese-speaking five- and six-year-olds (n = 28) and adults (n = 10). It is reported that syntactic structure in Japanese is prosodically marked via downstep and metrical boost. Results of an elicited imitation task suggested that children had acquired the lexical prosody (contrast between accented and unaccented words), a pre-requisite for downstep realization. While downstep, the prosodic phrasing involved in the complex NPs in this study, was established, children showed interspeaker variation with the metrical boost, a feature that distinguishes recursively embedded NPs from non-recursive NPs. However, variability was also found in adults, indicating that, in contrast to previous results, prosodic encoding of syntax is generally unreliable in adult speech. Finally, the magnitude of metrical boost was not correlated to children's ability to produce recursive possessives, suggesting that prosody does not help bootstrap Japanese children's recursive phrases.

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“…Verder word daar ook internasionaal heelwat vergelykende studies uitgevoer van eerstetaalverwerwing in verskillende tale (vergelyk Bassano & Hickmann 2013;Kail & Hickmann 2010;Küntay et al 2014). Beskrywende studies waarin ondersoek ingestel word na fonologiese (Archer & Curtin 2016;Kaur & Rau 2015;Swingley 2017;Tribushinina 2013), semantiese (Abend et al 2017;Srinivasan et al 2017) en morfosintaktiese (Cuza 2016;Legendre et al 2014;Lustigman 2013) …”

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