| Infants' perception of non-native sibilants following different distributions of frication and vocalic cues. | |
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PMID: 19062916 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Previous work suggests that learning to perceive speech categories in infancy may be influenced by the distributions of acoustic cues that underlie them. However, studies on this topic have focused on distributions of single cues, especially voice onset time (VOT), whereas natural phonetic categories are typically defined according to multiple cues and, moreover, VOT may constitute a special case as nonhuman animals are known to exhibit categorical perception of this cue. In order to explore the role of cue distributions in a more natural context, and to extend this research beyond the domain of VOT, in this study we exposed infants to different distributions of cues to a non-native contrast of place of articulation in fricatives. Results suggest that young infants are indeed able to track multiple acoustic cue distributions at once, and that these distributions shape infants' perception after a brief exposure, possibly by enhancing the perceptual similarities between acoustically similar tokens. |
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Alejandrina Cristià; Grant McGuire; Amanda Seidl; Alexander Francis |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Volume: 124 ISSN: 1520-8524 ISO Abbreviation: J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Publication Date: 2008 Oct |
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Created Date: 2008-12-09 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7503051 Medline TA: J Acoust Soc Am Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 2437 Citation Subset: IM |
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Linguist., Purdue Univ., 500 Oval Dr., West Lafayette, IN 47907, acristia@purdue.eduUniv. of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN 47907. |
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