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Direct linkSingh, Leher; Hui, Tam Jun; Chan, Calista; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick – Developmental Science, 2014
To learn words, infants must be sensitive to native phonological contrast. While lexical tone predominates as a source of phonemic contrast in human languages, there has been little investigation of the influences of lexical tone on word learning. The present study investigates infants' sensitivity to tone mispronunciations in two groups of…
Descriptors: Vowels, Intonation, Infants, Phonemics
Altvater-Mackensen, Nicole; Mani, Nivedita – Developmental Science, 2013
At about 7 months of age, infants listen longer to sentences containing familiar words--but not deviant pronunciations of familiar words (Jusczyk & Aslin, 1995). This finding suggests that infants are able to segment familiar words from fluent speech and that they store words in sufficient phonological detail to recognize deviations from a…
Descriptors: Infants, Suprasegmentals, Familiarity, Speech
