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The Discrimination of Foreign Speech Contrasts by Infants and Adults
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TREHUB, SANDRA E. The Discrimination of Foreign Speech Contrasts by Infants and Adults. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1976, 47, 466-472. Infants 5-17 weeks of age were presented with foreign speech sounds which were contingent upon their nonutritive sucking. When the infants met a specified criterion of sucking decrement, a contrasting sound was substituted. Significant differences in response recovery for experimental versus control (no sound change) subjects were found for the contrast pairs [pa]-[p-a] and [za]-[ia]. Adults were presented with a comparable discrimination task for the foreign contrasts [za]-[ia] and the English contrasts [li]-[ri]. It was found that adults achieved perfect accuracy with English contrasts but readily confused the foreign contrasts. The implications of these results for theories of perceptual development are discussed.
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- Authors
- Trehub, S. E.
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1976-06
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 466
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2032476212
- Cited by
- 339
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 3.88
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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