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Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts.
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Discrimination of 2 German vowel contrasts was examined in English-learning infants of 6-8 and 10-12 months of age using a head turn procedure. The younger infants were better able than the older infants to discriminate the nonnative contrasts, but performance at 6-8 months was below levels that have been reported for nonnative consonant contrasts. A 2nd experiment using a habituation looking procedure showed that 4-month-old infants discriminated both German vowel contrasts, but the 6-month-olds could not. The findings are consistent with previous consonant work, revealing a shift from a language-general toward a language-specific pattern during the 1st year of life. However, that shift begins earlier in development for vowels than for consonants.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Polka, L., & Werker, J. F.
- Venue
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 421-435
- ISSN
- 0096-1523 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1277
- OpenAlex
- W1980044217
- Cited by
- 721
- References
- 55
- FWCI
- 15.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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