By their second birthday, children are beginning to map meaning to form with relative ease. One challenge for these developing abilities is separating information relevant to word identity (i.e. phonemic information) from irrelevant information (e.g. voice and foreign accent). Nevertheless, little is known about toddlers’ abilities to ignore irrelevant phonetic detail when faced with the demanding task of word learning. In an experiment with English-learning toddlers, we examined the impact of foreign accent on word learning. Findings revealed that while toddlers aged 2; 6 successfully generalized newly learned words spoken by a Spanish-accented speaker and a native English speaker, success of those aged 2;0 was restricted. Specifically, tod...
Children are adept at learning their language’s speech-sound categories, but just how these categori...
Within the first few years of life, children acquire many of the building blocks of their native la...
Within the first few years of life, children acquire many of the building blocks of their native lan...
Both subjective impressions and previous research with monolingual listeners suggest that a foreign ...
This dissertation details 10 experiments that examine the impact of variability in voice and foreign...
Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily generali...
Efficient language use involves the capacity to flexibly adjust to varied pronunciations of words. A...
To develop adult-like communication skills, children need to learn to converse not only with individ...
Many studies have examined language acquisition under morphosyntactic or semantic inconsistency, but...
The recognition of familiar words was evaluated in 20-month-old children raised in a rhotic accent e...
One of the first steps infants take in learning their native language is to discover its set of spee...
Children are adept at learning their language’s speech-sound categories, but just how these categori...
Young children often fail to distinguish words differing by a single phoneme. It has been suggested ...
Understanding spoken language is much more complex than common intuition may suggest. Speaker-relate...
Although infants show remarkable sensitivity to linguistically relevant phonetic variation in speech...
Children are adept at learning their language’s speech-sound categories, but just how these categori...
Within the first few years of life, children acquire many of the building blocks of their native la...
Within the first few years of life, children acquire many of the building blocks of their native lan...
Both subjective impressions and previous research with monolingual listeners suggest that a foreign ...
This dissertation details 10 experiments that examine the impact of variability in voice and foreign...
Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily generali...
Efficient language use involves the capacity to flexibly adjust to varied pronunciations of words. A...
To develop adult-like communication skills, children need to learn to converse not only with individ...
Many studies have examined language acquisition under morphosyntactic or semantic inconsistency, but...
The recognition of familiar words was evaluated in 20-month-old children raised in a rhotic accent e...
One of the first steps infants take in learning their native language is to discover its set of spee...
Children are adept at learning their language’s speech-sound categories, but just how these categori...
Young children often fail to distinguish words differing by a single phoneme. It has been suggested ...
Understanding spoken language is much more complex than common intuition may suggest. Speaker-relate...
Although infants show remarkable sensitivity to linguistically relevant phonetic variation in speech...
Children are adept at learning their language’s speech-sound categories, but just how these categori...
Within the first few years of life, children acquire many of the building blocks of their native la...
Within the first few years of life, children acquire many of the building blocks of their native lan...