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Peer reviewedAllen, Prudence; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1989
Comparison of the auditory frequency resolving ability of preschool children, school-aged children, and adults found data from children as young as three-years-old that were qualitatively indistinguishable from adult data though threshold estimates from young children were more variable from run to run than from adults. Increasing age improved…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Auditory Perception, Children
Direct linkSundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Genesee, Fred – Cognition, 2006
To trace how age and language experience shape the discrimination of native and non-native phonetic contrasts, we compared 4-year-olds learning either English or French or both and simultaneous bilingual adults on their ability to discriminate the English /d-[delta]/ contrast. Findings show that the ability to discriminate the native English…
Descriptors: Language Enrichment, Monolingualism, French, English (Second Language)
