PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Phonotactics, Richard N. Aslin, Habituation

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 304
• Professor: Kristine Onishi

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They look longer at their mother when you say (cid:494)mommy(cid:495) and they look relatively longer at their father when you say (cid:494)daddy(cid:495) You show them the first object and say (cid:494)bih(cid:495) and then the second object and say (cid:494)dih(cid:495) You then ask them where the (cid:494)bih(cid:495) or the (cid:494)dih(cid:495) is and look at whether or not they know which one you are talking about. If you test a 14 month old and so this exact study, they fail to identify the correct novel objects. Surprising because we know that kids can learn new words at six months. Maybe it is the context of the lab that is throwing them off. They look equally at both objects regardless of the label that you give them. So, they do the same study but use the labels (cid:494)lif(cid:495) and (cid:494)neem(cid:495) instead of (cid:494)bih(cid:495) and (cid:494)dih(cid:495) Also, (cid:494)bih(cid:495) and (cid:494)dih(cid:495) are not phonotactically possible in english (because.