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Peer reviewedThorpe, Leigh A.; Trehub, Sandra E. – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Infants' detection of temporal increments to silent intervals "between" groups of tones was compared with their detection of comparable silent increments "within" groups of tones. Results indicated infants discriminated temporally altered sequences from standard only when increments occurred within group. Concludes perceptual…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Infants
Peer reviewedMorosan, David E.; Jamieson, Donald G. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
A perceptual fading technique was used to teach unilingual adult Canadian francophones to identify the voiceless and voiced linguadental fricatives of English. After just 90 minutes of training, subjects were better able to identify both the training stimuli and an untrained set of natural consonant-vowel exemplars produced by 4 different…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adults, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training
