Impact of associative word learning on phonotactic processing in 6-month-old infants: A combined EEG and fNIRS study.

ABSTRACT: During early language development native phonotactics are acquired in a 'bottom-up' fashion, relying on exquisite auditory differentiation skills operational from birth. Since basic lexico-semantic abilities have been demonstrated from 6 months onwards, 'top-down' influences on phonotactic learning may complement the extraction of transitional probabilities in phonotactic learning. Such a bidirectional acquisition strategy predicts, that familiarization with (proto)words should affect processing of untrained word-forms of similar phonological structure. We investigated 6-month-old infants undergoing an associative training to establish a pseudoword-pseudoobject link. Comparison between pre- and post-training responses to trained and untrained items allowed investigating training effects. A

SUBMITTER: Obrig H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6987754 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature