Emergence of an early receptive lexicon: Infants' recognition of words. Hallé, P. A. & de Boysson-Bardies , B. Infant Behavior & Development, 17(2):119-129, 1994.
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Examined whether 11- and 12-mo-old infants are able to recognize familiar words in a situation yielding no extralinguistic cues. Two experiments compared infants' interest for familiar words, chosen in the early productive vocabulary of young infants, against rare words infrequent in French usage. In Exp 1 Ss were 12 11-mo-olds and 12 12-mo-olds. Exp 2 Ss were 16 11-mo-olds. Both experiments used a preference paradigm in which preference was indexed by attention span. Lists of familiar words were auditorily presented to each S in the absence of any possible referent object. A preference for familiar words was found to be very consistent in 12-mo-olds and just emerging in 11-mo-olds. Results may reveal the existence of a developing receptive lexicon by age 11 mo.
@ARTICLE{Halle1994,
  author = {Hall\'e, Pierre A. and {de Boysson-Bardies}, B\'en\'edicte},
  title = {Emergence of an early receptive lexicon: Infants' recognition of
	words.},
  journal = {Infant Behavior \& Development},
  year = {1994},
  volume = {17},
  pages = {119-129},
  number = {2},
  abstract = {Examined whether 11- and 12-mo-old infants are able to recognize familiar
	words in a situation yielding no extralinguistic cues. Two experiments
	compared infants' interest for familiar words, chosen in the early
	productive vocabulary of young infants, against rare words infrequent
	in French usage. In Exp 1 Ss were 12 11-mo-olds and 12 12-mo-olds.
	Exp 2 Ss were 16 11-mo-olds. Both experiments used a preference paradigm
	in which preference was indexed by attention span. Lists of familiar
	words were auditorily presented to each S in the absence of any possible
	referent object. A preference for familiar words was found to be
	very consistent in 12-mo-olds and just emerging in 11-mo-olds. Results
	may reveal the existence of a developing receptive lexicon by age
	11 mo.},
  issn = {0163-6383},
  keywords = {recognition of words & development of receptive lexicon, 11-12 mo
	olds, France, Language Development, Word Recognition}
}

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