Infants learn language with remarkable speed, but how they do it remains a mystery. New
data show that infants use computational strategies to detect the statistical and prosodic …

Reviews recent experimental findings that show that the perception of phonetic distinctions
relies on the integration of multiple acoustic cues and is sensitive to the surrounding context …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Language involves a duality of patterning, as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand,
there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other, there are …

Research on mother-infant interaction in the first year of life can contribute to
conceptualizing the development of self-and object representations and the emerging …

Most theories of language acquisition implicitly assume that the language learner is able to
arrive at a segmentation of speech into clausal units. The present studies employed a …

A continuing controversy concerns whether speech perception can be best explained by
single-factor psychoacoustic models, single-factor specialized linguistic models, or dual …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

Ever since the beginning of language—and perhaps even earlier—human beings have
classified things and events into categories. Categorization occurs when we focus on …

Among the earliest and most frequent words that infants hear are their names Yet little is
known about when infants begin to recognize their own names Using a modified version of …