The current results indicate that at 14 months of age,
infants apply these cues to support the process of associating word forms with their referents. Our
findings indicate that infants discover phonotactic word segmentation cues that allow them to extract
unfamiliar words from continuous speech and to develop phonological representations of them. Here,
the phonological representations were robust enough to allow infants to map them to referents in a
task that was otherwise difficult to perform.