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Gerken, LouAnn; Balcomb, Frances K.; Minton, Juliet L. – Developmental Science, 2011
Every environment contains infinite potential features and correlations among features, or patterns. Detecting valid and learnable patterns in one environment is beneficial for learners because doing so lends predictability to new environments where the same or analogous patterns recur. However, some apparent correlations among features reflect…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Patterns, Attention, Learning
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Skoruppa, Katrin; Pons, Ferran; Christophe, Anne; Bosch, Laura; Dupoux, Emmanuel; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Limissuri, Rita Alves; Peperkamp, Sharon – Developmental Science, 2009
During the first year of life, infants begin to have difficulties perceiving non-native vowel and consonant contrasts, thus adapting their perception to the phonetic categories of the target language. In this paper, we examine the perception of a non-segmental feature, i.e. stress. Previous research with adults has shown that speakers of French (a…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Infants, French, Spanish