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Direct linkMattock, Karen; Burnham, Denis – Infancy, 2006
Over half the world's population speaks a tone language, yet infant speech perception research has typically focused on consonants and vowels. Very young infants can discriminate a wide range of native and nonnative consonants and vowels, and then in a process of "perceptual reorganization" over the 1st year, discrimination of most…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Infants, Chinese, English
