@inproceedings{c2aa304b2aac431b9f6b052230fe1b01,
title = "Does a vowel by any other accent sound the same ... to toddler ears?",
abstract = "![CDATA[Research on spoken word recognition in young children has emphasized detection of minimal phonetic contrasts, and offers conflicting evidence about the role of consonants versus vowels. The complementary ability to recognize words across natural phonetic variation, phonological constancy, is equally important to language development. Prior studies of phonological constancy found that 15- and 19-month-olds recognize familiar toddler words in an unfamiliar regional accent containing Category Goodness vowel and/or consonant differences from their native accent, or Category Shifting consonant differences. In the present study, Category Shifting vowel differences disrupted word recognition at both ages, supporting different roles for vowels than consonants.]]",
keywords = "word recognition, phonetics, vowels, consonants, infants",
author = "Best, {Catherine T.} and Christine Kitamura and Sophie Gates and Angela Carpenter",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
publisher = "Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association",
pages = "89--92",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 6-9 December 2016, Parramatta, Australia",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology ; Conference date: 06-12-2016",
}