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CAN INFANTS DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DECLARATIVES
AND INTERROGATIVES?
by
Susan Geffen
________________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
December 2010
Copyright 2010 Susan Geffen
Object Description
| Title | Can infants discriminate between declaratives and interrogatives? |
| Author | Geffen, Susan |
| Author email | sgeffen@usc.edu; Swingchicla@aol.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-10-29 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Mintz, Toben |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Manis, Frank Farver, JoAnn |
| Abstract | Three studies examined typically developing English-learning infants between 7- and 12-months to determine when they could distinguish between interrogatives and declaratives. We used two habituation paradigms and measured looking times to determine whether they were able to make the distinction. Experiments 1 and 2 used a modification of the Visual Habituation Procedure (Houston et al., 2007). Experiment 1 evaluated infants’ ability to distinguish between two sentences. Experiment 2 assessed whether infants could distinguish between sentence types (declaratives and interrogatives). Motivated by the pattern of positive and negative findings in Experiments 1 & 2, Experiment 3 evaluated the effectiveness of the Head-turn Preference Procedure (HPP) at assessing the sentence-type discrimination ability. Experiment 1 indicated that 9- and 12-month-olds could distinguish between sentences. Experiment 2 found evidence that infants as young as 7-month-olds could discriminate these broad classes of sentences, whereas no such evidence was found for 8- and 9-month-olds. Experiment 3 suggests that HPP may not be the most effective method for assessing sentence-type discrimination abilities. |
| Keyword | sentence-type discrimination; declaratives; interrogatives; infants |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3515 |
| Rights | Geffen, Susan |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Geffen-4020 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Geffen-4020.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | CAN INFANTS DISCRIMINATE BETWEEN DECLARATIVES AND INTERROGATIVES? by Susan Geffen ________________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Susan Geffen |
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