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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
