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      Newborn infants’ sensitivity to perceptual cues to lexical and grammatical words

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      Cognition
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          Abstract

          In our study newborn infants were presented with lists of lexical and grammatical words prepared from natural maternal speech. The results show that newborns are able to categorically discriminate these sets of words based on a constellation of perceptual cues that distinguish them. This general ability to detect and categorically discriminate sets of words on the basis of multiple acoustic and phonological cues may provide a perceptual base that can help older infants bootstrap into the acquisition of grammatical categories and syntactic structure.

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          Cognition
          Cognition
          Elsevier BV
          00100277
          September 1999
          September 1999
          : 72
          : 2
          : B11-B21
          Article
          10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00047-5
          10553673
          2000ead5-c0a8-41c1-93ce-56ce41d7b4d9
          © 1999

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