Infant Language Development

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This paper offers a background of the study "Mommy and Me: Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Structured Segmentation" and then explains the study's specifics. The paper details the three experiments that would test the relationship between sentence segmentation and known words strengths in six month old children. The paper then looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the study and at the implications of the study's findings. Lastly, the paper explains why this article is of significance to parents and professionals everywhere.

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"In their article, Mommy and Me: Familiar Names Help Launch Babies Into Speech-Structured Segmentation, Bortfeld, Morgan, Golinkoff, and Rathbun discuss infants' grammatical development with a specific emphasis on sentence construction. The article's four authors are representatives of three prominent United States' universities, Texas A&M University, Brown University, and the University of Delaware. Together, the four authors sought to answer the research question: "How do infants find the words in the tangle of speech that confronts them?" (298). By discussing the background of the study and the study's specifics, readers can make informed judgments as to the strengths and weaknesses of the study, theoretical perspective of the authors, and implications of the study's findings."

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