Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy.

ABSTRACT: The input contains perceptually available cues, which might allow young infants to discover abstract properties of the target language. Thus, word frequency and prosodic prominence correlate systematically with basic word order in natural languages. Prelexical infants are sensitive to these frequency-based and prosodic cues, and use them to parse new input into phrases that follow the order characteristic of their native languages. Importantly, young infants readily integrate auditory and visual facial information while processing language. Here, we ask whether co-verbal visual information provided by talking faces also helps prelexical infants learn the word order of their native language in addition to word frequency and prosodic prominence. We created two structurally ambiguous artifici

SUBMITTER: de la Cruz-Pavia I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6844464 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature