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Direct linkHay, Jessica F.; Graf Estes, Katharine; Wang, Tianlin; Saffran, Jenny R. – Child Development, 2015
Infants must develop both flexibility and constraint in their interpretation of acceptable word forms. The current experiments examined the development of infants' lexical interpretation of non-native variations in pitch contour. Fourteen-, 17-, and 19-month-olds (Experiments 1 and 2, N = 72) heard labels for two novel objects; labels…
Descriptors: Infants, Intonation, Auditory Perception, Suprasegmentals
Yeung, H. Henny; Chen, Lawrence M.; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2014
All languages employ certain phonetic contrasts when distinguishing words. Infant speech perception is rapidly attuned to these contrasts before many words are learned, thus phonetic attunement is thought to proceed independently of lexical and referential knowledge. Here, evidence to the contrary is provided. Ninety-eight 9-month-old…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Infants, English, Language Acquisition
