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Trehub, Sandra E. – Child Development, 1976
Infants 5-17 weeks of age were presented with foreign sounds which were contingent upon their nonnutritive sucking. Significant differences were found for experimental versus control (no sound change) subjects. It was found that adults achieved perfect accuracy with English contrasts but readily confused the foreign contrasts. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Stimuli, Contrastive Linguistics, Discrimination Learning