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Peer reviewedBurnham, Denis K. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
A review of research leads to the proposal that infants' perception of "fragile" contrasts is lost due to their lack of exposure to particular sounds. Perception of "robust" contrasts is lost around the onset of formal language training due to children's lack of experience with phonologically irrelevant sounds. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
