Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With Vocabulary
Rhyme perception is an important predictor for future literacy. Assessing rhyme abilities, however, commonly requires children to make explicit rhyme judgements on single words. Here we explored whether infants already implicitly process rhymes in natural rhyming contexts (child songs) and whether t...
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| description | Rhyme perception is an important predictor for future literacy. Assessing rhyme abilities, however, commonly requires children to make explicit rhyme judgements on single words. Here we explored whether infants already implicitly process rhymes in natural rhyming contexts (child songs) and whether this response correlates with later vocabulary size. In a passive listening ERP study, 10.5 month-old Dutch infants were exposed to rhyming and non-rhyming child songs. Two types of rhyme effects were analysed: (1) ERPs elicited by the first rhyme occurring in each song (rhyme sensitivity) and (2) ERPs elicited by rhymes repeating after the first rhyme in each song (rhyme repetition). Only for the latter a tentative negativity for rhymes from 0 to 200 ms after the onset of the rhyme word was found. This rhyme repetition effect correlated with productive vocabulary at 18 months-old, but not with any other vocabulary measure (perception at 10.5 or 18 months-old). While awaiting future replication, the study indicates precursors of phonological awareness already during infancy and with ecologically valid linguistic stimuli. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce79adf2e3df45d9ba40320a429cc37c2022-12-21T21:33:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782021-09-011210.3389/fpsyg.2021.680882680882Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With VocabularyLaura E. Hahn0Laura E. Hahn1Titia Benders2Paula Fikkert3Tineke M. Snijders4Tineke M. Snijders5Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NetherlandsInternational Max Planck Research School for the Language Sciences, Nijmegen, NetherlandsDepartment of Linguistics, Faculty of Human Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaCentre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NetherlandsMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NetherlandsDonders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NetherlandsRhyme perception is an important predictor for future literacy. Assessing rhyme abilities, however, commonly requires children to make explicit rhyme judgements on single words. Here we explored whether infants already implicitly process rhymes in natural rhyming contexts (child songs) and whether this response correlates with later vocabulary size. In a passive listening ERP study, 10.5 month-old Dutch infants were exposed to rhyming and non-rhyming child songs. Two types of rhyme effects were analysed: (1) ERPs elicited by the first rhyme occurring in each song (rhyme sensitivity) and (2) ERPs elicited by rhymes repeating after the first rhyme in each song (rhyme repetition). Only for the latter a tentative negativity for rhymes from 0 to 200 ms after the onset of the rhyme word was found. This rhyme repetition effect correlated with productive vocabulary at 18 months-old, but not with any other vocabulary measure (perception at 10.5 or 18 months-old). While awaiting future replication, the study indicates precursors of phonological awareness already during infancy and with ecologically valid linguistic stimuli.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.680882/fullrhymesongsvocabularyERPinfant |
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| title | Infants’ Implicit Rhyme Perception in Child Songs and Its Relationship With Vocabulary |
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