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Direct linkPaul Okyere Omane; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' preference for vowelharmony (VH, a phonotactic constraint that requires vowels in a word to be featurally similar) is thought to be language-specific: Monolingual infants learning VH languages show a listening preference for VH patterns by 6 months of age, while those learning non-VH languages do not (Gonzalez-Gomez et al., 2019; Van…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Child Language, Language Acquisition
