Table 1.
Behavioral performance on the word discrimination task
| Accuracy (% correct) |
Response Time (seconds) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Words | Partwords | Nonwords | Words | Partwords | Nonwords | |
| 6-year-olds | ||||||
| Unstressed Language | 58.3 (31.8) | 50.0 (25.0) | 1.894 (0.587) | 2.008 (0.729) | ||
| Stressed Language | 45.1 (30.0) | 52.1 (30.0) | 2.168 (0.602) | 2.438 (0.812) | ||
| Random Syllables | 44.1 (24.9) | 2.130 (0.514) | ||||
| 10-year-olds | ||||||
| Unstressed Language | 53.6 (26.6) | 42.3 (25.5) | 1.818 (0.453) | 1.964 (0.469) | ||
| Stressed Language | 51.4 (25.7) | 47.1 (27.2) | 1.842 (0.529) | 2.045 (0.488) | ||
| Random Syllables | 50.3 (26.0) | 1.876 (0.469) | ||||
| 13-year-olds | ||||||
| Unstressed Language | 52.4 (28.8) | 38.5 (26.4) | 1.830 (0.442) | 1.956 (0.475) | ||
| Stressed Language | 51.1 (23.0) | 44.2 (26.4) | 1.873 (0.526) | 1.929 (0.471) | ||
| Random Syllables | 51.0 (24.8) | 1.884 (0.378) | ||||
| Adults | ||||||
| Unstressed Language | 58.3 (21.2) | 39.8 (22.2) | 1.531 (0.241) | 1.574 (0.286) | ||
| Stressed Language | 47.2 (25.3) | 46.3 (25.7) | 1.526 (0.295) | 1.539 (0.257) | ||
| Random Syllables | 50.5 (26.6) | 1.540 (0.298) | ||||
Note: Values presented as mean (SD). It should be noted that for the Random Syllables condition, the Words and Partwords effectively constitute ‘Nonwords’ as they only occurred once during exposure to the Random Syllables stream. See Behavioral Results for a description of significant results.