TY  - JOUR
A1  - Tamasi, Katalin
A1  - Mckean, Cristina
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Children's gradient sensitivity to phonological mismatch
BT  - Considering the dynamics of looking behavior and pupil dilation
JF  - Journal of child language
N2  - In a preferential looking paradigm, we studied how children's looking behavior and pupillary response were modulated by the degree of phonological mismatch between the correct label of a target referent and its manipulated form. We manipulated degree of mismatch by introducing one or more featural changes to the target label. Both looking behavior and pupillary response were sensitive to degree of mismatch, corroborating previous studies that found differential responses in one or the other measure. Using time-course analyses, we present for the first time results demonstrating full separability among conditions (detecting difference not only between one vs. more, but also between two and three featural changes). Furthermore, the correct labels and small featural changes were associated with stable target preference, while large featural changes were associated with oscillating looking behavior, suggesting significant shifts in looking preference over time. These findings further support and extend the notion that early words are represented in great detail, containing subphonemic information.
KW  - lexical development
KW  - featural distance
KW  - mispronunciation detection
KW  - eye-tracking
KW  - pupillometry
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000918000259
SN  - 0305-0009
SN  - 1469-7602
VL  - 46
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 23
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
A1  - Poltrock, Silvana
A1  - Von Holzen, Katie
T1  - The Developmental Origins of the Consonant Bias in Lexical Processing
JF  - Current directions in psychological science
N2  - Consonants have been proposed to carry more of the weight of lexical processing than vowels. This consonant bias has consistently been found in adults and has been proposed to facilitate early language acquisition. We explore the origins of this bias over the course of development and in infants learning different languages. Although the consonant bias was originally thought to be present at birth, evidence suggests that it arises from the early stages of phonological and (pre-)lexical acquisition. We discuss two theories that account for the acquisition of the consonant bias: the lexical and acoustic-phonetic hypotheses.
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - lexical development
KW  - consonant bias
KW  - cross-linguistic differences
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416655786
SN  - 0963-7214
SN  - 1467-8721
VL  - 25
SP  - 291
EP  - 296
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - Thousand Oaks
ER  -