Date of Completion

Spring 5-8-2011

Thesis Advisor(s)

Heather Bortfeld

Honors Major

Psychology

Disciplines

Child Psychology | Cognitive Psychology

Abstract

According to the perceptual narrowing hypothesis, older infants look longer towards speech in a native language than towards a non-native language. We presented speech in English, Spanish, and mis-matched English and Spanish speech, and recorded looking-time towards the speech. Results suggest that the synchrony of speech plays a strong role in infants' attention to speech, whereas nativeness of language does not.

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