{"id":2687,"date":"2022-06-16T20:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:43:13","slug":"when-are-english-learning-infants-sensitive-to-the-distribution-of-sound-sequences-in-their-native-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/when-are-english-learning-infants-sensitive-to-the-distribution-of-sound-sequences-in-their-native-language\/","title":{"rendered":"When are English-learning infants sensitive to the distribution of sound sequences in their native language?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this experiment, we presented English-learning 5-month-olds with two sets of lists of monosyllables \u2013 one had English sounds that are common (e.g.&nbsp;<em>boir<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>koof<\/em>) and the other had English sounds that are uncommon (e.g.,&nbsp;<em>choiz<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>shuth<\/em>). Infants were tested using the&nbsp;Headturn Preference Procedure[MS1]&nbsp;. English-learning 5-month-olds listened longer to lists with the more common English sounds, indicating that they are already familiar with the distribution of permissible sound sequences in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this experiment, we presented English-learning 5-month-olds with two sets of lists of monosyllables \u2013 one had English sounds that are common (e.g.&nbsp;boir,&nbsp;koof) and the other had English sounds that are uncommon (e.g.,&nbsp;choiz,&nbsp;shuth). Infants were tested using the&nbsp;Headturn Preference Procedure[MS1]&nbsp;. English-learning 5-month-olds listened longer to lists with the more common English sounds, indicating that they &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/when-are-english-learning-infants-sensitive-to-the-distribution-of-sound-sequences-in-their-native-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When are English-learning infants sensitive to the distribution of sound sequences in their native language?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[42,44,17],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-sound-patterns-and-contrasts","tag-5-months","tag-9-months","tag-learning-sound-patterns-and-contrasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}