2004
Young children’s sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon
Coady J, Aslin R. Young children’s sensitivity to probabilistic phonotactics in the developing lexicon. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology 2004, 89: 183-213. PMID: 15501451, PMCID: PMC5531272, DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.07.004.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIndividual phonetic segmentsChildren's sensitivityPhonetic segmentsNonword repetition taskAcoustic-phonetic informationYoung children's sensitivityYoung childrenGroup of childrenEase of articulationProbabilistic phonotacticsLexical representationsRepetition taskLexical variablesPhoneme frequencyPhonotactic structureSound structureNonwordsAmerican EnglishOlder childrenChildrenLexiconAcoustic natureLarger unitsPhonotacticsSpeech
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 Research
1995
Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech
Jusczyk P, Aslin R. Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech. Cognitive Psychology 1995, 29: 1-23. PMID: 7641524, DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1995.1010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTarget wordsFluent speechNon-word targetsDifferent monosyllabic wordsSimilar sounding wordsUnfamiliar wordsSentential contextInfants' capacityPhonetic segmentsMonosyllabic wordsSpeech contextPhonetic featuresExperiment 3Experiment 4Experiment 1Test passagesTest phaseSound patternsFamiliarization periodWordsSpeechMonths of ageAmerican infantsSentencesContextThree- and four-year-olds’ perceptual confusions for spoken words
Gerken L, Murphy W, Aslin R. Three- and four-year-olds’ perceptual confusions for spoken words. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 1995, 57: 475-486. PMID: 7596745, DOI: 10.3758/bf03213073.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLexical representationsFeatural overlapHolistic hypothesisSpoken-word recognitionAcoustic-phonetic propertiesMinimal word pairsYoung childrenReason young childrenNonword stimuliSpeech contrastsTarget wordsWord recognitionMental lexiconWord pairsPhonetic segmentsAuditory stimuliSpoken wordsPerceptual confusionWord positionPhonetic featuresTest stimuliStimuliSingle featureChildrenWords