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Chapter 5. The role of prosody in early speech segmentation and word-referent mapping

Authors :
Teixidó, Maria
François, Clément
Bosch, Laura
Männel, Claudia
Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Cognition and Brain Plasticity Group [Barcelona, Spain]
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute IDIBELL [Barcelona, Spain]
Institut de Recerca Pediàtrica Hospital Sant Joan de Déu [Barcelona, Spain]
Institut de Neurociències
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences [Leipzig] (IMPNSC)
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
The present chapter was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (projectsPSI-2014–55105-P to L.B. and PSI-2015–69132-P to C.F.), the German Research Foundation(project MA 6897/2–1 to C.M.) and the Max Planck Society (C.M.).
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
Source :
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert. The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, pp.79-100, 2018, ⟨10.1075/tilar.23.05tei⟩
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2018.

Abstract

International audience; This chapter reviews electrophysiological studies on early word-form segmentation and word-referent mapping, with a focus on the role of prosody in these early abilities closely related to vocabulary acquisition. First, we will review event-related brain potential (ERP) studies on word segmentation showing the impact of lexical stress cues, infant-directed speech (IDS) properties and melodic information on word-form extraction. Then, we will review research on word-referent mapping, revealing the scarcity of ERP studies specifically exploring the contribution of prosody in this domain. Throughout the chapter we will emphasize how electrophysiological methods offer a more fine-grained perspective of the brain processes supporting segmentation and mapping abilities, often revealing infants’ sensitivities to auditory input before overt responses from behavioral methods can be obtained.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert. The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition, pp.79-100, 2018, ⟨10.1075/tilar.23.05tei⟩
Accession number :
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