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ERIC Number: EJ396965
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Categorization of Speech by Infants: Support for Speech-Sound Prototypes.
Grieser, DiAnne; Kuhl, Patricia K.
Developmental Psychology, v25 n4 p577-88 Jul 1989
Studied 16 six-month-old infants to determine whether they organized speech categories around prototypes. Infants correctly sorted novel stimuli over 90 percent of the time. Generalization to novel members of the category was significantly greater after exposure to the prototypical exemplar. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Infants, Language Acquisition, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Phonetics, Vowels
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Speech Perception