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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
Fais, Laurel; Kajikawa, Sachiyo; Werker, Janet; Amano, Shigeaki – Language and Speech, 2005
The canonical form for Japanese words is (Consonant)Vowel(Consonant) Vowel[approximately]. However, a regular process of high vowel devoicing between voiceless consonants and word-finally after voiceless consonants results in consonant clusters and word-final consonants, apparent violations of that phonotactic pattern. We investigated Japanese…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonics, Foreign Countries, Speech Communication
