Nederlandse Baby's Gebruiken Statistische Informatie om Spraakklanken te Leren Onderscheiden
Capel, Desiree and de Bree, Elise and Kerkhoff, Annemarie and Wijnen, Frank,, 79, 21-29 (2008),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1075/ttwia.79.03cap,
publicationName = John Benjamins,
issn = 0169-7420,
abstract= Phonemes are perceived categorically and this perception is language-specific for adult listeners. Infants initially are "universal" listeners, capable of discriminating both native and non-native speech contrasts. This ability disappears in the first year of life. Maye et al. (Cognition (2002)) propose that statistical learning is responsible for this change to language-specific perception. They were the first to show that infants of 6 and 8 months old use statistical distribution of phonetic variation in learning to discriminate speech sounds. A replication of this experiment studied 10-11-month-old Dutch infants. They were exposed to either a bimodal or a unimodal frequency distribution of an 8-step speech sound continuum based on the Hindi voiced and voiceless retroflex plosives (/da/ en /ta/). The results show that only infants in the bimodal condition could discriminate the contrast, representing the speech sounds in two categories rather than one.,
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