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Word Learning In Quiet And In Noise: A Preliminary Study, Grace Marie Wholley
Word Learning In Quiet And In Noise: A Preliminary Study, Grace Marie Wholley
EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement
Word learning involves finding words in continuous speech and mapping them onto novel objects. Previous research has demonstrated that infants can track the transitional probability (TP) between syllables (i.e., the likelihood two syllables will co-occur) in continuous speech to discover word boundaries. Here we ask whether infants can map sound sequences they have extracted from fluent speech onto novel objects. We used a naturally produced Italian corpus in which the TP between syllables was manipulated in 4 target words: two high TP (HTP; TP=1.0) words with component syllables only occurring within those words, and two low TP (LTP; TP=.3) words …