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Speech perception in early infancy: Perceptual constancy for spectrally dissimilar vowel categories

Kuhl, Patricia K.·1979·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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While numerous studies on infant perception demonstrate the infant’s ability to discriminate individual speech-sound pairs, very few demonstrate the infant’s ability to recognize the similarity among phonetic units when they occur in different phonetic contexts, in different positions in a syllable, or when they are spoken by different talkers. In two studies, six-month-old infants demonstrated the ability to distinguish two spectrally dissimilar vowel categories (/a/ and /i/) in which the vowel tokens were generated to simulate tokens produced by a male, a female, and a child talker. In experiment I, the infants were initially trained to discriminate the /a/ and /i/ tokens produced by the computer-simulated male voice. They were then gradually exposed to a number of novel tokens in a progressive transfer-of-learning task. In experiment II, the infants were initially trained to discriminate the same vowel contrast, but were then immediately tested with all of the tokens in both vowel categories. In both experiments the infants demonstrated rapid transfer of learning from the traning tokens produced by the male talker to the tokens produced by female and child talkers. Both experiments provide strong evidence that the six-month-old infant recognizes acoustic categories that conform to the vowel categories perceived by adult speakers of English.

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Authors: Kuhl, P. K.
Affiliations: University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author: Kuhl, Patricia K.
ORCID: Kuhl, Patricia K.
Venue: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Publisher: Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Published: 1979-12-01
Volume: 66
Issue: 6
Pages: 1668-1679
ISSN: 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
1520-8524
DOI: 10.1121/1.383639
OpenAlex: W1990351858
Cited by: 317
References: 0
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FWCI: 3.86
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Institutes of Health
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
Keywords: infant speech perception, perceptual constancy, vowel discrimination, transfer of learning, speaker variability, speaker identity, 6-month-old infants, phonetic categories
MeSH terms: Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception, Transfer, Psychology

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Speech perception in early infancy: Perceptual constancy for spectrally dissimilar vowel categories

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