Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy

Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.

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Autores: Santolin, Chiara, Zacharaki, Konstantina, Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-, Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105663
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Palabra clave:Syllable
Linguistic structure
Abstract processing
Learning
Infancy
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spelling Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancySantolin, ChiaraZacharaki, KonstantinaToro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-Sebastian-Galles, NuriaSyllableLinguistic structureAbstract processingLearningInfancyIncludes supplementary materials for the online appendix.Syllables are one of the fundamental building blocks of early language acquisition. From birth onwards, infants preferentially segment, process and represent the speech into syllable-sized units, raising the question of what type of computations infants are able to perform on these perceptual units. Syllables are abstract units structured in a way that allows grouping phonemes into sequences. The goal of this research was to investigate 4-to-5-month-old infants' ability to encode the internal structure of syllables, at a target age when the language system is not yet specialized on the sounds and the phonotactics of native languages. We conducted two experiments in which infants were first familiarized to lists of syllables implementing either CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) or CCV (consonant-consonant-vowel) structures, then presented with new syllables implementing both structures at test. Experiments differ in the degree of phonological similarity between the materials used at familiarization and test. Results show that infants were able to differentiate syllabic structures at test, even when test syllables were implemented by combinations of phonemes that infants did not hear before. Only infants familiarized with CVC syllables discriminated the structures at test, pointing to a processing advantage for CVC over CCV structures. This research shows that, in addition to preferentially processing the speech into syllable-sized units, during the first months of life, infants are also capable of performing fine-grained computations within such units.We give special thanks to Luca Bonatti for the helpful feedbacks on this work. We thank Valentina Ferrario for the offline coding of the familiarization phase, and Gonzalo Garcia-Castro and Ege Ekin Özer for inspiring discussions on these results. We are grateful to Pam Miller for proofreading the manuscript, and Xavier Mayoral, Silvia Blanch, Katia Pistrin of the Laboratori de Recerca en Infancia for their invaluable help during data collection. We are extremely grateful to the infants and the families who participated in the study. C.S. was supported by a Juan de la Cierva post-doctoral fellowship (IJC2019-041548-I/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). N.S.G. was supported by the project PID2021-123416NB-I00/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, financed by the Spanish Ministerio of Science and Innovation,the State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund, and by ICREA Academia 2018 award (P-5993) financed by the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA). J.M.T was supported by the project PID2021-123973NB I00/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, financed by the Spanish Ministerio of Science and Innovation, the State Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund. N.S.G and J.M.T. were also supported by the project 2021 SGR 00911 financed by the Catalan Generalitat AGAUR.Elsevier202420242024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/59537http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105663reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésCognition. 2024 Mar;244:105663info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-123973NB-I00info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PE/PID2021-123416NB-I00© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/595372026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
spellingShingle Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
Santolin, Chiara
Syllable
Linguistic structure
Abstract processing
Learning
Infancy
title_short Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
title_full Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
title_fullStr Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
title_full_unstemmed Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
title_sort Abstract processing of syllabic structures in early infancy
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Santolin, Chiara
Zacharaki, Konstantina
Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
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Zacharaki, Konstantina
Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
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Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Syllable
Linguistic structure
Abstract processing
Learning
Infancy
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Linguistic structure
Abstract processing
Learning
Infancy
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