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Direct linkYoshida, Katherine A.; Fennell, Christopher T.; Swingley, Daniel; Werker, Janet F. – Developmental Science, 2009
Can infants, in the very first stages of word learning, use their perceptual sensitivity to the phonetics of speech while learning words? Research to date suggests that infants of 14 months cannot learn two similar-sounding words unless there is substantial contextual support. The current experiment advances our understanding of this failure by…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Auditory Perception, Phonetics
