The area of intermodal perception offers a theoretical framework as well as the methods to study the precursors to lexical comprehension. Research in this area has revealed that very young infants are able to abstract amodal relations uniting audible and visible stimulation (Bahrick & Pickens, 1994; see Gibson, 1969 for a review). Amodal information is information that is completely redundant across two or more senses. Young infants detect redundant information across auditory and visual events involving speech (Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1988; Walton & Bower