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Mélanie Havy – First Language, 2024
In everyday life, children hear but also often see their caregiver talking. Children build on this correspondence to resolve auditory uncertainties and decipher words from the speech input. As they hear the name of an object, 18- to 30-month-olds form a representation that permits word recognition in either the auditory (i.e. acoustic form of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, French, Language Acquisition
Redard, Francoise – 1976
This is a report of a study conducted by a group of teachers to discover the extent to which students in the first three years of school were aware of the phonetic system of their native language (French) with emphasis on the means they used to analyze it. In the first year, the children discovered phonetic oppositions by touching their lips and…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Child Language, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes