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ERIC Number: EJ643714
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-0277
Infant Sensitivity to Distributional Information Can Affect Phonetic Discrimination.
Maye, Jessica; Werker, Janet F.; Gerken, LouAnn
Cognition, v82 n3 pB101-B111 Jan 2002
Familiarized 6- and 8-month-olds with speech sounds from a phonetic continuum, exhibiting a bimodal or unimodal frequency distribution. Found that only infants in the bimodal condition discriminated tokens from the endpoints of the continuum. Results demonstrate that infants are sensitive to the statistical distribution of speech sounds in the input language and that this sensitivity influences speech perception. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior, Infants, Perceptual Development, Phonetics
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Speech Perception