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.
The nucleic acids DNA and RNA are made from chains of nucleotides.
Human infants are like all other placental mammals, except they are born at a less developed state.
Eight Parts of Speech Cont
Canada's energy stream
Testing Infants’ Knowledge
Piecewise Derivative Example (Continuous or not)