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Fló, Ana; Brusini, Perrine; Macagno, Francesco; Nespor, Marina; Mehler, Jacques; Ferry, Alissa L. – Developmental Science, 2019
Before infants can learn words, they must identify those words in continuous speech. Yet, the speech signal lacks obvious boundary markers, which poses a potential problem for language acquisition (Swingley, "Philos Trans R Soc Lond. Series B, Biol Sci" 364(1536), 3617-3632, 2009). By the middle of the first year, infants seem to have…
Descriptors: Neonates, Infants, Experiments, Language Acquisition
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Dupoux, Emmanuel; Pallier, Christophe; Kakehi, Kazuhiko; Mehler, Jacques – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2001
When presented with stimuli that contain illegal consonant clusters, Japanese listeners tend to hear an illusory vowel that makes their perception conform to the phonotactics of the language. Assesses an alternate hypothesis that this illusion is due to a top-down lexical effect. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Consonants