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Direct linkMugitani, Ryoko; Pons, Ferran; Fais, Laurel; Dietrich, Christiane; Werker, Janet F.; Amano, Shigeaki – Developmental Psychology, 2009
This study investigated vowel length discrimination in infants from 2 language backgrounds, Japanese and English, in which vowel length is either phonemic or nonphonemic. Experiment 1 revealed that English 18-month-olds discriminate short and long vowels although vowel length is not phonemically contrastive in English. Experiments 2 and 3 revealed…
Descriptors: Cues, Vowels, Phonology, Infants
Peer reviewedWerker, Janet F.; Lalonde, Chris E. – Developmental Psychology, 1988
A series of experiments indicated that by 1 year of age, infants' perceptual categories correspond to linguistically significant categories. Developmental change between 6 and 12 months shows that perceptual abilities of the 1-year-old are not arbitrary, do not reflect all the discriminatory capabilities of the infant, and are similar to phonemic…
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Individual Development
Peer reviewedTreiman, Rebecca; Cassar, Marie – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Two experiments used phoneme counting tasks to investigate the foundations of phonemic awareness. Found that first graders and college students had some ability to distinguish between monophthongs (as in "he") and diphthongs (as in "how"), and they tended to count fewer "sounds" for syllables ending with the more…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attention, Auditory Perception
