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Sensitive periods in language development: Do children outperform adults on auditory word-form segmentation?
| العنوان: | Sensitive periods in language development: Do children outperform adults on auditory word-form segmentation? |
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| المؤلفون: | Smalle, E., Bogaerts, L. |
| المصدر: | Cortex vol.179 (2024) p.35-49 [ISSN 0010-9452] |
| بيانات النشر: | 2024 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Electronic Resource |
| مستخلص: | Children are more successful language learners than adults, yet the nature and cause of this phenomenon are still not well understood. Auditory statistical learning from speech has been a prominent focus of research in the field of language development because it is regarded as a fundamental learning mechanism underlying word segmentation in early language acquisition. However, a handful of studies that investigated developmental trajectories for auditory statistical learning found no clear child advantages. The degree to which the learning task measures explicit rather than implicit mechanisms might obscure a potential advantage for younger learners, as suggested by recent findings. In the present study, we compared children aged 7–12 years and young adults on an adapted version of the task that disentangles explicit and implicit contributions to learning. They were exposed to a continuous stream of speech sounds comprising four repeating trisyllabic pseudowords. Learning of the hidden words was tested (a) online through a target-detection task and (b) offline via a forced-choice word recognition test that included a memory judgement procedure. Both measures revealed comparable learning abilities. However, children's performance on the recognition task showed evidence for both explicit and implicit word knowledge while adults appeared primarily sensitive to explicit memory. Since implicit memory is more stable in time than explicit memory, we suggest that future work should focus more on developmental differences in the nature of the memory that is formed, rather than the strength of learning, when trying to understand child advantages in language acquisition. |
| مصطلحات الفهرس: | Auditory statistical learning, Implicit and explicit memory, Language development, Sensitive periods, Word segmentation, Article |
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| الاتاحة: | Open access content. Open access content info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess (c) Universiteit van Tilburg |
| ملاحظة: | DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.07.001 Cortex vol.179 (2024) p.35-49 [ISSN 0010-9452] English |
| Other Numbers: | GRG oai:tilburguniversity.edu:publications/ac318911-e924-421f-8e5b-0a74e5ec48ab https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/ac318911-e924-421f-8e5b-0a74e5ec48ab 1452818022 |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsoai.on1452818022 |
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