Table 3.

Mean Looking Time in Seconds (With Standard Deviation) of Infants in Each Condition of Experiment 2 to the Average of the First Three Trials of Habituation and Each Test Trial

	Habituation condition
Habituation condition	Silent	Novel word
Average of first three habituation trials	25.71 s (4.24 s)	22.21 s (7.11 s)
Familiar objects in a tight fit	8.06 s (7.66 s)	9.77 s (4.33 s)
Familiar objects in a loose fit	12.71 s (10.03 s)	14.47 s (7.32 s)
Novel objects in a tight fit	19.95 s (9.70 s)	16.01 s (6.79 s)
Novel objects in a loose fit	16.47 s (7.99 s)	21.65 s (9.61 s)