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Direct linkAnderson, Jennifer L.; Morgan, James L.; White, Katherine S. – Language and Speech, 2003
Infants under six months are able to discriminate native and non-native consonant contrasts equally well, but as they learn the phonological systems of their native language, this ability declines. Current explanations of this phenomenon agree that the decline in discrimination ability is linked to the formation of native-language phonemic…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Phonology, Infants, Statistical Analysis
