Discovering Words

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The book is arranged into subjects, within which a selection of words are traced back through the stages by which they came to be part of the English language, and through more recent changes over time in form and meaning. For as long as the infant maintained their gaze on the central monitor, the test trial continued, up to a maximum of 20 s. On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to discovering, such as: attentive, discerning, discriminating, intelligent, mindful, and perceptive.

Two kinds of test items were created to assess infants’ ability to segment the language: words and part-words. Once infants have extracted a small set of lexical items from the input, they can learn the phonological regularities that characterize words in the native language.Other times it is in the illustration itself such as Métis beading on a jacket or a woman’s long dark braid. Further, it replicates prior work with 7-month-olds demonstrating that infants – even 5-month-old infants – can learn to use lexical stress as a cue to word segmentation upon exposure to lexical forms that consistently exemplify a stress pattern ( Thiessen and Saffran, 2007).

If the ability to segment speech does not emerge until later than 7 months, these 5-month-old infants should not discriminate between words and part-words following familiarization with this fluent speech stream. From this perspective, infants’ and adults’ use of phonological cues is not a sign that statistical learning is unimportant for language acquisition. First, infants must be able to segment words from fluent speech, via sensitivity to conditional statistical cues, before 6 months. With more and more parents and educators looking for Indigenous resources, this paperback edition of Discovering Words will bring the experience of learning French and Cree to a whole new group of early elementary school-aged kids. Within the word segmentation literature, it is commonly held that infants develop the ability to segment fluent speech by 7.This cue is relevant to word segmentation because sounds within a word are more likely to co-occur than sounds across word boundaries ( Hayes and Clark, 1970). For example, exposure to a set of words allows infants to discover the phonological regularities that characterize those words ( Chambers et al. Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: evidence from German and French infants.