Daniel Swingley
Department of Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
In spite of well-known demonstrations of infants' capacity for tuning their perception of speech to match the phonological distinctions of their native language, controversy persists regarding children's knowledge of the sound-forms of words. I will present results indicating that children's lexical encoding is consistent with predictions based on accurate phonological categorization, but that memory limitations and interference can prevent the use of a strict phonological criterion for differentiating words.
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