{"id":3512,"date":"2026-10-13T12:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:31:06","slug":"do-infants-recognize-different-forms-of-the-same-word-when-the-pronunciation-of-the-verb-stem-remains-consistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/do-infants-recognize-different-forms-of-the-same-word-when-the-pronunciation-of-the-verb-stem-remains-consistent\/","title":{"rendered":"Do infants recognize different forms of the same word when the pronunciation of the verb stem remains consistent?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to see how children learn to map different forms of the same word to each other.\u00a0 In previous experiments, we&#8217;ve been testing whether babies can relate mee[t] with mee[\u027e]ing. The results indicate that they don&#8217;t realize that mee[t] and mee[\u027e]ing are related. Therefore, now we&#8217;re testing to see whether they know that mee[t] and mee[t]ing are grammatically related, when there is no alternation. We have them listen for a few minutes to two different passages with verbs featuring the progressive \u2013<em>ing<\/em> form that do not contain a tap. Afterwards, we play word lists ending in \/-d\/ or \/-t\/. For this purpose, we play the words from one side of the booth or the other and measure the time spent looking at each side. If babies correctly segment the root of the verb, they are expected to listen longer to words present in the passages. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to see how children learn to map different forms of the same word to each other.\u00a0 In previous experiments, we&#8217;ve been testing whether babies can relate mee[t] with mee[\u027e]ing. The results indicate that they don&#8217;t realize that mee[t] and mee[\u027e]ing are related. Therefore, now we&#8217;re testing to see whether they know that mee[t] &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/do-infants-recognize-different-forms-of-the-same-word-when-the-pronunciation-of-the-verb-stem-remains-consistent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do infants recognize different forms of the same word when the pronunciation of the verb stem remains consistent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-3512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-12-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}