Fast phonetic learning in very young infants: what it shows, and what it doesn't show

Frontiers in Psychology

Ocke-Schwen Bohn¹ 

关键词: infant vowel perception;    fast phonetic learning;    Natural Referent Vowel framework;    perceptual asymmetry;    infant MMR (mismatch response);   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00511

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

One of the very solid findings from infant speech perception research is that infants start out as universal perceivers and that their perception becomes attuned to the ambient language(s) mostly during the second half of the first year of life. This language-specific alignment of perceptual abilities happens early for tones (4–6 months, Yeung et al., 2013) and later for consonants (8–12 months, Werker and Tees, 1984, but see Best et al., 1988). The results for vowels are less clear-cut; some studies report language-specific discrimination by 6 months (Kuhl et al., 1992; Polka and Werker, 1994) whereas others find this pattern emerging as late as 12 months (Polka and Bohn, 1996).

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