Jan 6 ===== Curtin/Werker:2009 ------------------ It seems that the weighting of cues infants pay closer attention to segment the speech stream changes over time (e.g. transitional probabilities preferred over stress) What triggers that change (e.g. do probabilities offer more information)? Are those preferences developed over time language specific? Why the movement of the objects is a parameter in the switch task created by Werker et al (1998)? How can the word learning situation in experiments be controlled ? Why is the change from language-general to language-specific perception described as a functional reorganization, rather than a loss?