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Swingley, Daniel – Language and Speech, 2003
Although infants show remarkable sensitivity to linguistically relevant phonetic variation in speech, young children sometimes appear not to make use of this sensitivity. Here, children' s knowledge of the sound-forms of familiar words was assessed using a visual fixation task. Dutch 19-month-olds were shown pairs of pictures and heard correct…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Word Recognition, Indo European Languages, Language Acquisition