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ReviewBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025

English-Learning Infants' Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning.

Suzanne Curtin, Susan A Graham

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Review in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Suzanne CurtinDepartment of Child and Youth Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1509-7960
Susan A GrahamDepartment of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7667-1650

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council RGPIN/03797-2018Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council RGPIN/05310-2019Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 435-2017-0120
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children appear to acquire new words effortlessly from complex auditory input. However, this process is highly intricate, requiring the simultaneous integration of phonetic and phonemic details, prosodic cues, and grammatical structures. Furthermore, different components of a language's sound system-such as phonemes, syllables, and prosodic features-appear with different frequencies in the input and follow distinct patterns of distribution in speech. This article reviews research that illustrates how infants' growing understanding of their native language sound system facilitates their acquisition of new words.

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distributional learningphonological developmentword learning

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PMID40426383
PMCPMC12109163

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