ArticleChild development2016
Learning in Complex Environments: The Effects of Background Speech on Early Word Learning.
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- Familiar Object Salience Affects Novel Word Learning.Child development · 2019Article
- Insights From Crossing Research Silos on Visual and Auditory Attention.Current directions in psychological science · 2019Article
- Word segmentation from noise-band vocoded speech.Language, cognition and neuroscience · 2017Article
- Influences of background noise on infants and children.Current directions in psychological science · 2017Article
- Children build their vocabularies in noisy environments: The necessity of a cross-disciplinary approach to understand word learning.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive scienceArticle
- Home Auditory Environments of Children With Cochlear Implants and Children With Normal Hearing.Ear and hearingArticle
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Abstract
Although most studies of language learning take place in quiet laboratory settings, everyday language learning occurs under noisy conditions. The current research investigated the effects of background speech on word learning. Both younger (22- to 24-month-olds; n = 40) and older (28- to 30-month-olds; n = 40) toddlers successfully learned novel label-object pairings when target speech was 10 dB louder than background speech but not when the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) was 5 dB. Toddlers (28- to 30-month-olds; n = 26) successfully learned novel words with a 5-dB SNR when they initially heard the labels embedded in fluent speech without background noise, before they were mapped to objects. The results point to both challenges and protective factors that may impact language learning in complex auditory environments.
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