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Assesses word comprehension influenced by phonological representation in infants, suggesting early language processing abilities.
= .057) when including all items but significant for items with balanced salience (odds ratio = 1.51). Twelve- to 14-month olds consistently fixated targets less when hearing mispronunciations (odds ratio = 1.59). These findings set a lower bound on how vague early word representations could be and are consistent with phonologically accurate encoding of at least some words before the first birthday. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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