Internal structure of voicing categories in early infancy
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It is well established that young infants process speech in terms of perceptual categories that closely correspond to the phonetic categories of adult language users. Recently, Kuhl (1991) has provided evidence that this correspondence is not limited to the region of category boundaries: At least by 6-7 months of age, vowel categories of infants, like those of adults, have an internal perceptual structure. In the current experiments, which focused on a consonantal contrast, we found evidence of internally structured categories in even younger infants-3-4 months of age. The implications of these findings for the nature of the infant's earliest language-universal categories are discussed, as is the role of exposure to the native language in shaping these categories over the course of development.
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The initial perceptual biases shown by infants in tests of categorical perception, as well as asymmetries in perception seen in infancy, produce a contouring of the perceptual space that is universal.
“The important point regarding development is that the initial perceptual biases shown by infants in tests of categorical perception (12–16), as well as asymmetries in perception seen in infancy (80, 81), produce a contouring of the perceptual space that is universal.”
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- Authors
- Miller, J. L., & Eimas, P. D.
- Affiliations
- Northeastern University (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Miller, Joanne L.
- Venue
- Perception & Psychophysics
- Published
- 1996-08
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1157-1167
- ISSN
- 0031-5117 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5962
- OpenAlex
- W2087826769
- Cited by
- 65
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 5.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Perception & Psychophysics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01hd005331-27)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC-00130)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD 05331)
- 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, voicing, phonetic categories, category structure, early infancy, language universals
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Face, Female, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Infant, Language Development, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Phonetics, Speech Acoustics, Speech Perception
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