2011
Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word forms onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants
Shukla M, White KS, Aslin RN. Prosody guides the rapid mapping of auditory word forms onto visual objects in 6-mo-old infants. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2011, 108: 6038-6043. PMID: 21444800, PMCID: PMC3076873, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017617108.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsChild LanguageFemaleHumansInfantLearningMalePattern Recognition, VisualSpeech PerceptionConceptsAuditory word formsProsodic phrase boundariesWord formsPhrase boundariesContinuous speechWord learning processWord-like unitsMore naturalistic conditionsVisual referentsVisual objectsLanguage inputSuccessful learningSpeech inputNative languageNaturalistic conditionsHuman infantsLearner expectationsLearning processSpeechReferential roleLearningParsingComplex contextProsodyExpectations
2006
Lexical competition in young children’s word learning
Swingley D, Aslin RN. Lexical competition in young children’s word learning. Cognitive Psychology 2006, 54: 99-132. PMID: 17054932, PMCID: PMC2613642, DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2006.05.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLexical competitionNovel wordsNovel neighborPicture fixation taskPhonological sensitivityChildren's wordFamiliar wordsPhonetic categoriesSpeech comprehensionNew wordsNovel objectsPhonological differencesSound patternsRecognition performanceWordsYoung childrenFamiliar neighborsChildrenComprehensionUtterancesInhibitory interactionsTaskNonneighborsAdultsDiscrimination
2003
Phonological neighbourhoods in the developing lexicon
COADY J, ASLIN R. Phonological neighbourhoods in the developing lexicon. Journal Of Child Language 2003, 30: 441-469. PMID: 12846305, PMCID: PMC5524141, DOI: 10.1017/s0305000903005579.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsChildChild LanguageChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansLinguisticsMalePhoneticsSemanticsVerbal BehaviorVerbal LearningVocabulary
1984
Infant discrimination of two- and five-formant voiced stop consonants differing in place of articulation.
Walley A, Pisoni D, Aslin R. Infant discrimination of two- and five-formant voiced stop consonants differing in place of articulation. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1984, 75: 581-9. PMID: 6699297, PMCID: PMC3514865, DOI: 10.1121/1.390531.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsChild LanguageCuesHumansInfantPhoneticsPsychology, ChildSound SpectrographySpeechSpeech AcousticsSpeech PerceptionConceptsPlace of articulationOnset spectrumHead-turning paradigmRecent theoretical accountsFormant transition informationDiscrimination of placeTwo-formant stimuliAdditional acoustic informationInfants' discriminationArticulation perceptionArticulation contrastsDiscrimination taskFormant transitionsTheoretical accountsStop consonantsArticulation differencesAcoustic informationStimuliInnate cuesYoung infantsCuesTransition informationTransition differencesBurst stimuliDiscrimination