Table 1.
Demographic information of the infant participants.
Fig 1.
Shared structure of the two artificial languages.
The table represents the basic shared structure of the two ambiguous artificial languages: (a) the categories and tokens of the languages, (b) the two possible parses of the ambiguous stream, (c) the 8 test items. On the right, a picture of the animated line drawing.
Fig 2.
Graphical depiction of the alignment of prosodic and visual information in the aligned and misaligned conditions.
The brackets signal the duration of the head nods, while the arrows depict the location of their peak.
Fig 3.
Graphical depiction of the study’s modified HPP (image adapted from [6]).
The size of the lights as they appear on the drawing of the screen is scaled to the actual size displayed on the 46” screen during the study.
Fig 4.
The x axis shows the four groups examined. The y axis displays the infants’ looking times in seconds. The dark grey bars depict looking times to the frequent-initial items, and the light grey bars looking times to the frequent-final items. Error bars represent the standard error of the mean.
Table 2.
Looking time results.