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Archer, Stephanie L.; Zamuner, Tania; Engel, Kathleen; Fais, Laurel; Curtin, Suzanne – Language Learning and Development, 2016
Research has shown that young infants use contrasting acoustic information to distinguish consonants. This has been used to argue that by 12 months, infants have homed in on their native language sound categories. However, this ability seems to be positionally constrained, with contrasts at the beginning of words (onsets) discriminated earlier.…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Auditory Perception, Acoustics
Cooper, Franklin S. – 1969
The status and progress of several studies dealing with the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and instrumentation for practical applications is reported on. The period of January 1 through June 30, 1969 is covered. Extended reports and manuscripts cover the following topics: programing for the Glace-Holmes synthesizer,…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Auditory Perception, Blindness, Computers
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Jones-Molfese, Victoria – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
The schema hypothesis proposed by Kagan and Lewis was used to make predictions concerning the preferences of infants 3 to 14 months old for speech stimuli. An operant response method was used in determining the infants' preferences for inflected, monotone, and scrambled natural speech stimuli. (MS)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Early Childhood Education, Infant Behavior
Seymour, Dorothy – J Reading Spec, 1969
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Correlation, Early Reading, Infant Behavior