English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning
Children appear to acquire new words effortlessly from complex auditory input. However, this process is highly intricate, requiring the simultaneous integration of phonetic and phonemic details, prosodic cues, and grammatical structures. Furthermore, different components of a language’s sound system...
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| description | Children appear to acquire new words effortlessly from complex auditory input. However, this process is highly intricate, requiring the simultaneous integration of phonetic and phonemic details, prosodic cues, and grammatical structures. Furthermore, different components of a language’s sound system—such as phonemes, syllables, and prosodic features—appear with different frequencies in the input and follow distinct patterns of distribution in speech. This article reviews research that illustrates how infants’ growing understanding of their native language sound system facilitates their acquisition of new words. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a399f0bd69dc498da1cbe7ad76bb1d9e2025-08-20T01:56:29ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2025-05-0115560510.3390/bs15050605English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word LearningSuzanne Curtin0Susan A. Graham1Department of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, CanadaDepartment of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, CanadaChildren appear to acquire new words effortlessly from complex auditory input. However, this process is highly intricate, requiring the simultaneous integration of phonetic and phonemic details, prosodic cues, and grammatical structures. Furthermore, different components of a language’s sound system—such as phonemes, syllables, and prosodic features—appear with different frequencies in the input and follow distinct patterns of distribution in speech. This article reviews research that illustrates how infants’ growing understanding of their native language sound system facilitates their acquisition of new words.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15/5/605phonological developmentdistributional learningword learning |
| spellingShingle | Suzanne Curtin Susan A. Graham English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning Behavioral Sciences phonological development distributional learning word learning |
| title | English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning |
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