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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
