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Swingley, Daniel – Language Learning and Development, 2019
In learning language, children must discover how to interpret the linguistic significance of phonetic variation. On some accounts, receptive phonology is grounded in perceptual learning of phonetic categories from phonetic distributions drawn over the infant's sample of speech. On other accounts, receptive phonology is instead based on phonetic…
Descriptors: Phonology, Vowels, Phonetics, Indo European Languages

Shafer, Valerie L.; Shucard, David W.; Shucard, Janet L.; Gerken, LouAnn – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
This study explored the sensitivity of 20 10- to 11-month-old infants to the phonological characteristics of their native language. Tone-probe event-related potentials were obtained for subjects listening to a story, either with normal English function morphemes or modified with atypical function morphemes. Results suggest that the 11-month-olds,…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Listening