Question

According to Saffran et al. (1996), to investigate whether an infant is using transitional probability to cluster groups of syllables into word-like units, a researcher would present the infant with a string of _______ during the familiarization phase, and then record their gaze direction and time for words versus non-words in the test phase.

Answer 1

Answer: continuous sequence of words from a novel language appearing in various/different orders.

Explanation: According to Saffran et al. (1996) study showed that 8 months old infants who are familiarized with streams of multi-syllabic artificial words and then get tested for recognition of those words could Differentiate between strings of syllables that make up a word and others that did not. The mechanism of infant statistical learning enables recognition of structure.