Showing papers by "Jacques Mehler published in 1978"
TL;DR: It was shown that infants will suck more for their mother's voices under the intonated condition only, and it was concluded that a young infant prefers its own mother's voice provided the mother speaks normally.
Abstract: Each of a group of one-month-old infants was reinforced, contingent upon nonnutritive sucking, with its mother's voice and the voice of a stranger. In this experiment, two conditions were applied. Under the first, the mother's speech was aimed at communicating with the infant, while, under the second, the mother's speech lacked prosodic and intonational aspects of normal speech. It was shown that infants will suck more for their mother's voices under the intonated condition only. It was concluded that a young infant prefers its own mother's voice provided the mother speaks normally.
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TL;DR: This paper showed that the ambiguity of the word preceding a target phoneme did not cause an increase in the time required to detect the phoneme, and that the presence of an ambiguous word necessarily complicates the real-time processing of a sentence.
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TL;DR: Three experiments are reported in which rapid sequential visual presentation of sentences-RSVP-was used to determine some perceptual processes in sentence perception, and it was found that adjectives, when they are actually or potentially modifiers of a noun, are far less likely to be reported than any other part of the sentence.
Abstract: Three experiments are reported in which rapid sequential visual presentation of sentences-RSVP-was used to determine some perceptual processes in sentence perception. It was found that adjectives, when they are actually or potentially modifiers of a noun, are far less likely to be reported than any other part of the sentence. On the other hand, adjectives which are attribute adjectives are as likely to be reported as any other part of the sentence. Conclusions are drawn concerning sentence perception in general.
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