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Rivera-Gaxiola, Maritza; Silva-Pereyra, Juan; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Developmental Science, 2005
Behavioral data establish a dramatic change in infants' phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months of age. Foreign-language phonetic discrimination significantly declines with increasing age. Using a longitudinal design, we examined the electrophysiological responses of 7- and 11-month-old American infants to native and non-native consonant…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Infants, Brain

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