Figure 2: Trial structure.
During the experimental sessions, infants sat on the mother’s or father’s lap in a sound-attenuated room. In each trial a coloured picture of a single object appeared on the screen for 3,200 ms. After an interval of 800 ms post picture onset, the German indefinite article ein (masculine/neuter) was presented to direct the children’s attention to the acoustically presented pseudo-word that followed the article presentation at 1,600 ms post-picture onset.
