{"id":2674,"date":"2022-06-16T19:57:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:47:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:47:14","slug":"what-are-the-cues-that-infants-use-to-segment-vowel-initial-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/what-are-the-cues-that-infants-use-to-segment-vowel-initial-words\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the cues that infants use to segment vowel-initial words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this experiment, babies listened for a minute or two to a passage.&nbsp; Then, we played them words that were present in the passage and words that were not.&nbsp; If babies correctly segment the words, they are expected to listen longer to words present in the passage.&nbsp; We asked if 11-month-olds who have a hard time segmenting words that begin with vowels (e.g. ash), can do so when these words follow a highly frequent function word, such as \u201cthe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The results of this study demonstrate that 11-month-olds, but not 8-month-olds, are able to use the frequently occurring function word \u201cthe\u201d to segment vowel-initial words.&nbsp; This suggests that function words are known words for infants, and 11-month-olds are able to use this \u201cknown word\u201d to find other words in a passage.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this experiment, babies listened for a minute or two to a passage.&nbsp; Then, we played them words that were present in the passage and words that were not.&nbsp; If babies correctly segment the words, they are expected to listen longer to words present in the passage.&nbsp; We asked if 11-month-olds who have a hard &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/what-are-the-cues-that-infants-use-to-segment-vowel-initial-words\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What are the cues that infants use to segment vowel-initial words?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[50,40],"class_list":["post-2674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-learning-and-word-segmentation","tag-11-months","tag-word-learning-and-word-segmentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}