Dept of Linguistics

Cognitive Neuroscience
of Language
Laboratory

 

 

Preferential Looking Stimuli

Study topic and average age Stimuli examples (.mp4)

Matching auditory and visual features

9 and 20 weeks

Vowel pairs: /i/-/u/, /a/-/u/, and /i/-/a/

Syllable pairs: /i/-/wi/, /si/-/shi/, and /li/-/ri/

Question words

(A-bar movement)

15 and 20 months

"Which - Subject Question" and "Relative Clause - Direct Object"

Word Learning:

Nouns and Prepositions

16, 19, and 28 months

"Instrument"

Word Learning:

Verbs

23 months

"Intransitive Verbs"

"Hard Choice" and "Novel Test"

Semantic Structure:

Learning Causative Verbs

24 months

"No Cause vs No Result"

Pronouns

(Binding Theory)

30 months

"Principle C", "Reflexives", and "Principle B"



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