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Creel, Sarah C. – Developmental Science, 2018
How and when do children become aware that speakers have different accents? While adults readily make a variety of subtle social inferences based on speakers' accents, findings from children are more mixed: while one line of research suggests that even infants may be acutely sensitive to accent unfamiliarity, other studies suggest that 5-year-olds…
Descriptors: Dialects, Pronunciation, Social Cognition, Learning Processes
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Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Nazzi, Thierry – Developmental Science, 2015
Recently, several studies have argued that infants capitalize on the statistical properties of natural languages to acquire the linguistic structure of their native language, but the kinds of constraints which apply to statistical computations remain largely unknown. Here we explored French-learning infants' perceptual preference for…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Phonology, French