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Direct linkButler, Joseph; Floccia, Caroline; Goslin, Jeremy; Panneton, Robin – Infancy, 2011
This study investigates infants' discrimination abilities for familiar and unfamiliar regional English accents. Using a variation of the head-turn preference procedure, 5-month-old infants demonstrated that they were able to distinguish between their own South-West English accent and an unfamiliar Welsh English accent. However, this distinction…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, English, Dialects
Fennell, 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
