Early Language Development

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Bridging brain and behaviour

Angela D. Friederici Guillaume Thierry(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 14. February 2008

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Early Language Development
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
List of contributors
Preface
Introduction to early language development
The method of event-related brain potentials in the study of cognitive processes
1 The field of cognitive neuroscience
2 Electroencephalography and event-related brain potentials
Figure 1.
3 ERP components and their interpretation
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4 Advantages and disadvantages of the ERP method
4.1 General methodological considerations
4.2 Pragmatic considerations regarding developmental research
5 ERP components in language processing
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6 Summary
References
Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence leve
1 Introduction
2 Phoneme processing in the first year
2.1 Insights from behavioral studies
2.2 Insights from ERP studies
2.2.1 ERP indices of phonetic processing
2.2.2 ERP studies of phoneme processing in infants
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2.2.3 ERP phoneme processing measures as predictors of early language development
2.2.4 Behavioral phoneme processing measures and language outcomes
2.3 Future directions for phoneme processing studies using ERPs
3 Word processing in the second year
3.1 Insights from behavioral studies
3.2 Insights from ERP studies
3.2.1 Infants growing up with one language
3.2.2 Infants growing up with two languages
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3.3 Future directions for word processing studies using ERPs
4 Sentence processing in the third, fourth, and fifth years
4.1 ERP effects associated with semantic and syntactic processing in adults and school-age children
4.2 ERP effects associated with semantic and syntactic processing in preschool-age children
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4.3 ERP effects associated with syntactic processing in the face of reduced lexical-semantic inform
4.4 Future directions for sentence processing studies using ERPs
5 Conclusions
References
Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French
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1 The emergence of segmentation abilities in English-learning infants
2 Crosslinguistic issues
3 Testing the rhythmic-based early segmentation hypothesis: the case of the syllable in French
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4 Using ERPs to further explore the relationship between syllabic and whole-word segmentation durin
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5 Conclusions
References
Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition
1 Introduction: Reflecting the development of speech perception
2 The word segmentation problem
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3 The headturn preference procedure and early word segmentation
4 Advantages and disadvantages of behavioral word segmentation measures
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5 ERPs as a reflection of early word segmentation
Table 1.
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6 Parallel measures: A preliminary account
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Table 2.
7 What does it mean when behavior and brain activity fail to line up?
8 Simultaneous measures: Future goals
Notes
References
The onset of word form recognition
1 Introduction
1.1 Early advances in linguistic knowledge as revealed by the headturn preference procedure
1.2 Word recognition as revealed by ERPs
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2 Onset of word recognition in English and Welsh
2.1 English infants
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2.2 Welsh infants
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2.3 Welsh-English bilingual infants
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3 General discussion
3.1 The absence of a main familiarity effect in Welsh
3.2 The familiarity effect in bilinguals
4 Conclusion
Notes
References
Neurophysiological correlates of picture-word priming in one-year-olds
1 Introduction
2 Behavioural and ERP research: Complementary methodological approaches
3 The N400: An electrophysiological correlate of semantic processing
4 The cross-modal picture-word priming paradigm
4.1 Participants
4.2 Stimuli
4.3 Procedure
Figure 1. The picture-word priming paradigm
5 The comparison of congruous and incongruous words
5.1 The early priming effect
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5.2 The later N400 priming effect
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5.3 Summary of the comparison of congruous and incongruous words
6 The comparison of legal and phonotactically illegal nonsense words
6.1 The early phonotactic familiarity effect
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6.2 The later semantic integration effect
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6.3 Summary of the comparison of legal and illegal nonsense words
7 Analyses of subgroups with different behavioral language development
7.1 The language test SETK-2
7.2 Participants
7.3 Results
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7.4 Discussion of the subgroup comparisons
8 The importance of N400 mechanisms for word learning
Notes
References
The effects of early word learning on brain development
1 Introduction
2 Event-related potentials
Figure 1. Electrode placements for infant studies using 16 channels
3 Single word processing from 13 to 20 months
4 Measuring language experience: Overall Language Exposure or Individual Words?
5 Different levels of experience: Evidence from bilingual children
6 Cross-modal semantic priming
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6.1 Semantic processing of words and gestures
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7 Influences of phonological information on word comprehension
8 Influences of prosodic information on word comprehension
8.1 Effects of altered experience with infant-directed speech
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9 Single word processing from 3 to 11 months
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10 Discussion
10.1 N200-400 indexes word meaning
10.2 Experience and the organization of language-relevant brain activity
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From perception to grammar
1 Biological perspectives on language acquisition
2 Setting the stage: earlier thoughts on language acquisition
3 Learning language: rule-based and statistics-based approaches
4 A new perspective: perceptual primitives in artificial grammar experiments and language
5 Conclusion
References
The development of syntactic brain correlates during the first years of life
1 Introduction
2 Phases of language processing in the adult
3 Processing of syntactic violations in children
4 The present study
5 Adult ERP pattern
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6 Developmental ERP pattern
6.1 Early positivity
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6.2 Syntax-related components
7 General Discussion
References
Language acquisition and ERP approaches
1 Interdisciplinary preliminaries
2 Highlights
Table 1. Areas of child ERP research thematized: Sounds to sentences, 3 months to 48
2.1 The inventory of speech sounds
2.2 Segmenting the signal and finding words
2.3 The meaning of words
2.4 Finding and processing structure in sentences
3 Prospects and challenges: The state of the art
3.1 The technological challenge
3.1.1 Fine time course measure and ERP components
3.1.2 Higher sensitivity of ERP responses to underlying cognitive processes
3.1.3 Applicability across different age groups
3.1.4 Caveats
3.2 What does one stand to learn about language development from using EEG/ERP with children?
3.2.1 Linguistic representation
3.2.2 Linguistic computation
3.3 Large-scale neurocognitive models - an opportunity for developmental research?
4 Recommendations from some (friendly) disciplinary neighbors
5 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Glossary of selected terms
Index
The series Trends in Language Acquisition Research

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