{"pk":29428,"title":"Specificity of Infant Statistical Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Sensitivity to transitional probabilities (TP) in continuous speech has been extensively documented, yet little is knownabout how infants represent sequences that are the output of statistical learning. Across 3 experiments we test 8-month-old English-learning infants indexical, segmental, and suprasegmental representations of newly-encountered statistically-defined words. Following familiarization with a naturally-produced Italian corpus that contained two trochaic (strong-weak) high TP (HTP) words produced by a female speaker, infants were tested on their ability to discriminate modifiedHTP words (Experiment 1=male voice; Experiment 2=onset consonant change); Experiment 3=iambic stress pattern),from foils. Infants demonstrated a significant familiarity preference for modified HTP words in Experiments 1 and 3,but failed to recognize consonant modified HTP words in Experiment 2. Findings demonstrate infants can generalizerepresentations of statistically-defined words across a range of acoustic forms less relevant to word meaning in English,but not across phonemic characteristics that are core to word meaning.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Learning and Development","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vm980zr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sara","middle_name":"Parvanezadeh","last_name":"Esfahani","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tennessee","department":""},{"first_name":"Jessica","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hay","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Tennessee","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29428/galley/19288/download/"}]}