British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infantdirected speech stimuli

Caroline Floccia; Tamar Keren-Portnoy; Rory A DePaolis; Hester Duffy; Claire Delle Luche; Samantha Durrant; Laurence White; Jeremy Goslin; Marilyn Vihman

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004

British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infantdirected speech stimuli

Caroline Floccia, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Rory A DePaolis, Hester Duffy, Claire Delle Luche, Samantha Durrant, Laurence White, Jeremy Goslin, Marilyn Vihman

Language and Linguistic Science

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Abstract

The word segmentation paradigm originally designed by Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) has been widely used to examine how infants from the age of 7.5 months can extract novel words from continuous speech.
Here we report a series of 13 studies conducted independently in two British laboratories, showing that British English-learning infants aged 8–10.5 months fail to show evidence of word segmentation when tested in this paradigm. In only one study did we find evidence of word segmentation at 10.5 months, when we used an exaggerated infant-directed speech style. We discuss the impact of variations in
infant-directed style within and across languages in the course of language acquisition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	Cognition
Volume	148
Early online date	18 Dec 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004
Publication status	Published - 2016

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Keywords

Word segmentation, Infants, Infant-directed-speech, Replication, British English

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Tamar Keren-Portnoy
- tamar.keren-portnoyyork.acuk
- Language and Linguistic Science - Professor
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Exploring cultural impact on word segmentation
Keren-Portnoy, T.
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (ESRC)
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