Numerous findings suggest that non-native speech perception undergoes dramatic changes before the infant's first birthday. Yet the nature and cause of these changes remain uncertain. We evaluated the predictions of several theoretical accounts of developmental change in infants' perception of non-native consonant contrasts. Experiment 1 assessed English-learning infants' discrimination of three isiZulu distinctions that American adults had categorized and discriminated quite differently, consistent with the Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM: Best, 1995; Best et al., 1988). All involved a distinction employing a single articulatory organ, in this case the larynx. Consistent with all theoretical accounts, 6-8 month olds discriminated all con...
Phonetic perception becomes native-like by 10 months of age. A potential mechanism of change, distri...
This article reports three studies designed to increase our understanding of developmental changes i...
Perceptual attunement (PA) and perceptual narrowing (PN) are two critical processes in an infant’s e...
The perceptual assimilation model (PAM; Best, C. T. [1995]. A direct realist view of cross-language ...
Previous research has revealed that very young infants discriminate most speech contrasts with whic...
Discrimination of 2 German vowel contrasts was examined in English-learning infants of 6-8 and 10-12...
It is generally accepted that infants initially discriminate native and non-native contrasts and tha...
Infants under six months are able to discriminate native and non-native con-sonant contrasts equally...
Previous work in which we compared English infants, English adults, and Hindi adults on their abilit...
Previous research has indicated that infants have the ability to categorically discriminate many of ...
Previous research suggests that infant speech perception reorganizes in the first year: young infant...
Previous research (Werker, Gilbert, Humphrey, & Tees, 1981) in which we compared English infants, En...
In this article, we present a summary of recent research linking speech perception in infancy to lat...
Inspired by the notion that some typologically less common contrasts may be perceptually less salien...
Since the 1970s much has been learned about infant speech perception, particularly regarding develop...
Phonetic perception becomes native-like by 10 months of age. A potential mechanism of change, distri...
This article reports three studies designed to increase our understanding of developmental changes i...
Perceptual attunement (PA) and perceptual narrowing (PN) are two critical processes in an infant’s e...
The perceptual assimilation model (PAM; Best, C. T. [1995]. A direct realist view of cross-language ...
Previous research has revealed that very young infants discriminate most speech contrasts with whic...
Discrimination of 2 German vowel contrasts was examined in English-learning infants of 6-8 and 10-12...
It is generally accepted that infants initially discriminate native and non-native contrasts and tha...
Infants under six months are able to discriminate native and non-native con-sonant contrasts equally...
Previous work in which we compared English infants, English adults, and Hindi adults on their abilit...
Previous research has indicated that infants have the ability to categorically discriminate many of ...
Previous research suggests that infant speech perception reorganizes in the first year: young infant...
Previous research (Werker, Gilbert, Humphrey, & Tees, 1981) in which we compared English infants, En...
In this article, we present a summary of recent research linking speech perception in infancy to lat...
Inspired by the notion that some typologically less common contrasts may be perceptually less salien...
Since the 1970s much has been learned about infant speech perception, particularly regarding develop...
Phonetic perception becomes native-like by 10 months of age. A potential mechanism of change, distri...
This article reports three studies designed to increase our understanding of developmental changes i...
Perceptual attunement (PA) and perceptual narrowing (PN) are two critical processes in an infant’s e...