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Nazzi, Thierry; Floccia, Caroline; Moquet, Berangere; Butler, Joseph – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Using a name-based categorization task, Nazzi found in 2005 that French-learning 20-month-olds can make use of one-feature consonantal contrasts between new labels but fail to do so with one-feature vocalic contrasts. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels at…
Descriptors: Infants, French, English, Child Language
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Trehub, Sandra E.; Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Nakata, Takayuki – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2008
We examined effects of age and culture on children's memory for the pitch level of familiar music. Canadian 9- and 10-year-olds distinguished the original pitch level of familiar television theme songs from foils that were pitch-shifted by one semitone, whereas 5- to 8-year-olds failed to do so (Experiment 1). In contrast, Japanese 5- and…
Descriptors: Intonation, Memory, Cultural Differences, Age