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Peer reviewedMaye, Jessica; Werker, Janet F.; Gerken, LouAnn – Cognition, 2002
Familiarized 6- and 8-month-olds with speech sounds from a phonetic continuum, exhibiting a bimodal or unimodal frequency distribution. Found that only infants in the bimodal condition discriminated tokens from the endpoints of the continuum. Results demonstrate that infants are sensitive to the statistical distribution of speech sounds in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Discrimination Learning, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedShi, Rushen; Werker, Janet F.; Morgan, James L. – Cognition, 1999
Presented neonates with lexical and grammatical words prepared from natural maternal speech. Found that neonates could categorically discriminate the sets based on a constellation of perceptual cues that distinguished them. Suggested that this ability to discriminate words on basis of multiple acoustic/phonological cues provides a perceptual base…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cues
