Publication Date:
1997-09-26
Description:
Infants' long-term retention of the sound patterns of words was explored by exposing them to recordings of three children's stories for 10 days during a 2-week period when they were 8 months old. After an interval of 2 weeks, the infants heard lists of words that either occurred frequently or did not occur in the stories. The infants listened significantly longer to the lists of story words. By comparison, a control group of infants who had not been exposed to the stories showed no such preference. The findings suggest that 8-month-olds are beginning to engage in long-term storage of words that occur frequently in speech, which is an important prerequisite for learning language.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Jusczyk, P W -- Hohne, E A -- HD15795/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1997 Sep 26;277(5334):1984-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9302291" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Humans
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Infant
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*Language Development
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*Memory
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*Vocabulary
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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