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Direct linkGrabe, Esther; Rosner, Burton S.; Garcia-Albea, Jose E.; Zhou, Xiaolin – Language and Speech, 2003
Native language affects the perception of segmental phonetic structure, of stress, and of semantic and pragmatic effects of intonation. Similarly, native language might influence the perception of similarities and differences among intonation contours. To test this hypothesis, a cross-language experiment was conducted. An English utterance was…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Intonation, Semantics, Multidimensional Scaling
Bosch, Laura; Sebastian-Galles, Nuria – Language and Speech, 2003
Behavioral studies have shown that while young infants can discriminate many different phonetic contrasts, a shift from a language-general to a language-specific pattern of discrimination is found during the second semester of life, beginning earlier for vowels than for consonants. This age-related decline in sensitivity to perceive non-native…
Descriptors: Vowels, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
