{"pk":33283,"title":"The Development of Spolken Word Recognition: Experimental and Computational Studies","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Children's spoken word recognition is little understood compared to our knowledge of the adult system. We present here a combined experimental and computational exploration of the development of lexical access. Three accounts of the way children represent lexical form (Full-Specification, Radical Underspecification and Gradual Segmentation) are rejected in favour of one which derives from a connectionist approach. It sheds light on the pattern of results from two experiments investigating the way children, aged 5- to 9-years-old, process regular and irregular variation in the surface form of speech, which suggested, whilst children's lexical representations are functionally underspecified from at least 5-years-oId, they are only beginning to track the viability of regular phonological variation at 9-years-old. The late acquisition of phonological inference is accounted for in a connectionist model in terms of the sparseness of the information relevant to learning this structural relationship in language.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/64p3g17t","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tom","middle_name":"","last_name":"Loucas","name_suffix":"","institution":"Centre for Speech and Language, Birkbeck College","department":""},{"first_name":"William","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Marslen-Wilson","name_suffix":"","institution":"MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1998-01-01T23:30:00+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33283/galley/24343/download/"}]}