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Development of Single/Geminate Obstruent Discrimination by Japanese Infants: Early Integration of Durational and Nondurational Cues
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Sato, Yutaka; Kato, Mahoko; Mazuka, Reiko – Developmental Psychology, 2012
The Japanese language has single/geminate obstruents characterized by durational difference in closure/frication as part of the phonemic repertoire used to distinguish word meanings. We first evaluated infants' abilities to discriminate naturally uttered single/geminate obstruents (/pata/ and /patta/) using the visual habituation-dishabituation…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Japanese
What Paradox? Referential Cues Allow for Infant Use of Phonetic Detail in Word Learning
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Fennell, Christopher T.; Waxman, Sandra R. – Child Development, 2010
Past research has uncovered a surprising paradox: Although 14-month-olds have exquisite phonetic discrimination skills (e.g., distinguishing [b] from [d]), they have difficulty using phonetic detail when mapping "novel" words to objects in laboratory tasks (confusing "bin" and "din"). While some have attributed infants' difficulty to immature word…
Descriptors: Cues, Phonetics, Infants, Auditory Perception
Learning Words' Sounds before Learning How Words Sound: 9-Month-Olds Use Distinct Objects as Cues to Categorize Speech Information
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Yeung, H. Henny; Werker, Janet F. – Cognition, 2009
One of the central themes in the study of language acquisition is the gap between the linguistic knowledge that learners demonstrate, and the apparent inadequacy of linguistic input to support induction of this knowledge. One of the first linguistic abilities in the course of development to exemplify this problem is in speech perception:…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Native Speakers, Infants, Auditory Perception