English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. The Phonological System and Early Word Learning
2.1. Infants’ Attention to the Phonological Structure of the Sound Form
2.2. Sensitivity to Phonotactic Sequences in Word–Object Associations
2.3. Mapping of Less Probable Object Labels to Referents
2.4. Constraints vs. Preferences
3. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Curtin, S.; Graham, S.A. English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning. Behav. Sci. 2025, 15, 605. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050605
Curtin S, Graham SA. English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning. Behavioral Sciences. 2025; 15(5):605. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050605
Chicago/Turabian StyleCurtin, Suzanne, and Susan A. Graham. 2025. "English-Learning Infants’ Developing Sound System Guides Their Early Word Learning" Behavioral Sciences 15, no. 5: 605. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15050605
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