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Word form generalisation across voices: the role of infant sleep. ...
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Abstract:
To understand language, infants must form long-term memory representations of the sound patterns of words and recognise those patterns across different instances of the words heard. As it has been shown that humans retain linguistic, acoustic and indexical properties of speech (e.g., Goldinger, 1996, 1998; Pufahl & Samuel, 2014), recognising different heard tokens of the same word as such entails extracting constant acoustic features from a pool of variable auditory instances. Sleep has been shown to support similar processes of knowledge abstraction in other domains, e.g., the extraction of invariant visual features across similar-looking objects and the ability to recognise them under the label of the same object category (e.g., Konrad, Seehagen, et al., 2016), or the extraction of the underlying structure of continuous stimuli (e.g., Gomez et al., 2006). Crucially, in some instances, generalisation of meanings has only been observed when both a nap and nocturnal sleep followed children’s first ...
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FOS Languages and literature; Linguistics; Phonetics and Phonology; Social and Behavioral Sciences
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/ucqa8
https://osf.io/ucqa8/
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