Author Question: Saffran, Aslin, and Newport (1996) presented infants with a continuous speech stream made up of four ... (Read 39 times)

nevelica · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Saffran, Aslin, and Newport (1996) presented infants with a continuous speech stream made up of four different three-syllable nonsense words, for a total of two minutes.

Then they tested whether infants had picked up on word boundaries by presenting these nonsense words and new sequences. The infants showed a preference for ______, demonstrating that they _______.
a) neither sequence; had picked up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words
b) neither sequence; had failed to pick up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words
c) listening to the new sequences; had picked up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words
d) listening to the new sequences; had failed to pick up on the word boundaries of the original nonsense words

Question 2

Chomsky's approach to how we engage in language is termed:

a) transformational grammar.
b) constraint-based grammar.
c) phonetic grammar.
d) syntactic based grammar.