He Says Potato, She Says Potahto: Young Infants Track Talker-Specific Accents

Autor/inn/en	Weatherhead, Drew; White, Katherine S.
Titel	He Says Potato, She Says Potahto: Young Infants Track Talker-Specific Accents
Quelle	In: Language Learning and Development, 12 (2016) 1, S.92-103 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1547-5441
DOI	10.1080/15475441.2015.1024835
Schlagwörter	Infants; Pronunciation; Eye Movements; Phonetics; Vowels; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Cognitive Mapping; Inferences; Auditory Stimuli; Visual Stimuli; Coding; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Aussprache; Augenbewegung; Phonetik; Fonetik; Inference; Inferenz; Auditive Stimulation; Codierung; Programmierung; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	One of the most fundamental aspects of learning a language is determining the mappings between words and referents. An often-overlooked complication is that infants interact with multiple individuals who may not produce words in the same way. In the present study, we explored whether 10- to 12-month-olds can use talker-specific knowledge to infer the intended referents of novel labels. During exposure, infants heard two talkers whose front vowels differed; one talker trained them on a word-referent mapping. At test, infants saw the trained object and a novel object; they heard a single novel label from both talkers. When the label had a front vowel (Experiment 1), infants responded differently as a function of talker, but when it had a back vowel (Experiment 2), they did not, mapping the novel label to the novel object for both talkers. These results suggest that infants can track the phonetic properties of two simultaneously presented talkers and use information about each talker's previous productions to guide their referential interpretations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01