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Direct linkFennell, Christopher T. – Infancy, 2012
Infants greatly refine their ability to discriminate language sounds by 12 months, yet 14-month-olds appear to confuse similar-sounding novel words. Two explanations could account for this phenomenon: infants initially have incomplete phoneme representations, suggesting developmental discontinuity; or word-learning demands interfere with use of…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Phonetics, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Auditory Discrimination
