Infants remember the order of words in a spoken sentence |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Unit, University of Liège, Belgium;2. Psychological and Speech Therapy Consultation Center (CPLU), University of Liège, Belgium;1. ENEA C.R. Frascati, 00044 Frascati, Rome, Italy;2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;3. EUROfusion Consortium, Programme Management Unit, Garching, Germany;4. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany;5. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, 85748 Garching, Germany;6. Consorzio CREATE, Naples, Italy;7. CEA-IRFM, 13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France;1. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of South Building, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China;2. Department of Clinical Pharmacology, General Hospital of Chinese PLA, Beijing 100853, China;3. School of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China;1. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA;2. Rutgers University–Newark, Newark, NJ 07102, USA |
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| Abstract: | The ability to remember sequential order information is an important component in the learning and mastery of many complex cognitive skills. Notably, it is critical for learning language. This study investigated whether infants are capable of remembering the order of words in an English sentence and, especially, whether the structure afforded by natural sentential prosody enhances their ability to do so. This study compares 2-montholds' abilities to detect changes in word order, after a 2-min delay, for sequences spoken as a well-formed sentence versus as two unrelated, but well-formed, sentential fragments. The results indicate that infants exposed to the single sentences were able to detect changes in word order. By comparison, infants exposed to the sentential fragments showed no tendency to detect the same word order changes. Thus, even at two months of age, infants are able to remember the order of spoken words when they are embedded within the coherent prosodic structure of a single well-formed sentence. |
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