Exploring the "anchor word" effect in infants: Segmentation and categorisation of speech with and without high frequency words.

PLoS One · 2020 · PMC7746152 · PMID 33332419

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However, the interaction between vocabulary size and word type was approaching significance ( p = .051, semi partial R m 2 = . 13 ); high-vocabulary infants had a novelty preference, looking longer at non-words ( M raw = 7483.887, SE raw = 888.012) than words (M raw = 5477.855, SE raw = 529.748), whereas low-vocabulary infants had a familiarity preference, looking longer at words ( M raw = 9549.288, SE raw = 1082.154) than non-words ( M raw = 7998.033, SE raw = 734.504; see Fig 2 ).

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This suggests that infants may have been trending towards segmentation (though this effect did not reach statistical significance–see the results described above), and that their looking preferences were mediated by their language development.

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