Cats make dogs easier to find, but bananas make birds hard: What context can tell us about semantics and phonology in the early lexicon. (original) (raw)

Abstract

This paper will present evidence that the toddler lexicon shares substantial similarities with the adult lexicon, both in terms of word-to-word lexico-semantic associations, and in terms of phonological competition arising from recent context. Evidence from behavioural paradigms involving eye gaze will demonstrate that the performance of toddlers in comprehension tasks is influenced by semantic context at short (adult-like) priming latencies, and by phonological context arising from adult-like ‘implicit’ labeling of pictures. The time-course of cognitive processes underpinning these effects will be discussed in the light of electrophysiological evidence from ERPs.

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