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Peer reviewedPapousek, Mechthild; Hwang, Shu-Fen C. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Native speakers recorded utterances in three role-play contexts: speech to presyllabic infants, foreign language instruction, and adult conversation. For babytalk, speakers neglected, reduced, or modified lexical tonal information in favor of simplified and clarified intonation contours. The implications regarding tone acquisition in children and…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Females, Infants
Miura, Ichiro – IRAL, 1996
Reports on the perceptual discrimination of segmental and suprasegmental phones by Japanese learners of English. Results reveal that early learners showed better discrimination performance than normal learners and confirmed the usefulness of learning English at an early age. (16 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Elementary School Students
