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    "pk": 25946,
    "title": "Vocabulary Size is Correlated with Non-Native Tone Sensitivity In English\nLearning Infants",
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    "abstract": "In many languages, tone (i.e., pitch patterns) is part of the phonological system; two words with the same sequences\nof segments can differ only in tone. Tone does not distinguish word meanings in English, so English-learning infants can\nignore tone when learning words, but do they? We examined the encoding of tonal detail in word learning by monolingual\nEnglish-learning 14- and 17-month-olds. Infants were habituated to a novel word with a Mandarin tone (/k´a/) paired with a\nnovel object. Test trials alternated between the same pairing (Same), and the same object paired with the word with a different\ntone (/k`a/, Switch). Longer looks to the unfamiliar mapping indicate infants noticed the switch and attended to tone contrasts.\nOverall, neither age group discriminated the tone contrast; however, infants with larger vocabularies looked longer to the novel\nmapping (r=.32, p=.007), suggesting a common underlying mechanism between general word learning and tone sensitivity.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Member Abstracts",
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    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Candise",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lin",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Toben",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Mintz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Southern California",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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