Infants are endowed with a proclivity to acquire language, whether it is presented in the auditory or visual modality. Moreover, in the first months of life, listening to language supports fundamental
Infants appear to learn abstract rule-like regularities (e.g., la la da follows an AAB pattern) more easily from speech than from a variety of other auditory and visual stimuli (Marcus et al., 2007).
Eyetracking data collected from two-year-old infants, stimuli and analysis scripts. In the current study we tested whether background variability could boost word learning in a...
