21 Nov 2006

Mits Ota

Recent research suggests that infants' readiness to encode segmental contrasts in new words develops some time during the first half of the second year. But much less is known about when infants acquire a similar ability in prosodic lexical contrasts, how reliable early prosodic representations are, and how flexible they are with respect to post-lexical variability. Here I address these issues based on a series of word-object association experiments I have been conducting with 14- and 17-month-old Japanese infants.

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