Clauses are perceptual units for young infants.

By Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, D. K. Nelson, Peter W. Jusczyk, K. Cassidy, B. Druss, Lori J. Kennedy. 1987

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology, Linguistics

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Unsupervised Speech Recognition (2021, background): “On the other hand, humans learn a lot about speech simply by listening to others around them and without explicit supervision (Werker and Tees, 1984; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987; Polka and Werker, 1994; Jusczyk et al., 1999; Johnson and Jusczyk, 2001).”
Infants' preference for the predominant stress patterns of English words. (1993, methodology): “Moreover, the headturn preference procedure has also been used successfully to demonstrate that 6-month-olds show sensitivity to prosodic correlates of syntactic units in the native language (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987) and to musical phrase structure (Krumhansl & Jusczyk, 1990).”
Word Segmentation by 8-Month-Olds: When Speech Cues Count More Than Statistics (2001, methodology): “Research on the identification of cla and phrase boundaries (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1 Jusczyk et al., 1992) shows not only that infa are sensitive to very subtle acoustic cues to guistic structure, but also that they use th cues in encoding information (Nazzi, Keml Nelson, Jusczyk, & Jusczyk, 2000; Sod”
Phonological phrase boundaries constrain lexical access II. Infant data (2004, background): “Intonational phrase boundaries have been shown to be perceptible by young infants: Hirsh-Pasek et al. (1987) observed that infants listened longer to stimulus sets in which silences were inserted at points coincident with intonational phrase boundaries than to stimuli in which silences were…”
Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition (2004, background): “In a study exploring infants processing of uninterrupted versus interrupted prosodic units, Hirsh-Pasek et al. (1987) found that six-montholds listened longer to passages with uninterrupted intonational phrases (roughly, clauses).”
Infant intersubjectivity: research, theory, and clinical applications. (2001, unknown): “, 1990; Werker & McLeod, 1989), and facilitates language acquisition (Fernald & Mazzie, 1991; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987).”
Three facial expressions mothers direct to their infants (2003, background): “There is even some evidence that the modifications in infantdirected speech facilitate infants’ ability to parse (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987), discriminate (Karzon, 1985), and comprehend (Fernald et al., in press) language, and that the exaggerated prosodic characteristics may optimally convey…”
Designing sociable robots (2002, background): “Parentese (or motherese) is a well-known example of how adults simplify and exaggerate important aspects of language such as pitch, syntax, and pronunciation (Bateson, 1979; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987).”
Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts. (1994, background): “Interestingly, the timing of the onset of these language-specific changes in vowel discrimination coincides with language-specific attunement to various aspects of prosodic structure that are also conveyed by vocalic portions of the speech stream (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987; Jusczyk et al., 1993).”