Abstract
The change from universal to language-specific speech perception occurs in the second half of the first year. Through head turn preference procedures, we examined changes in Dutch infants’ perception of two consonant, one vowel, and two tonal contrasts at three time windows in the first year of life. Sensitivity to some, but not all, native and non-native contrasts followed the traditional perceptual tuning trajectory. We suggest that initial biases, linguistic exposure and acoustic salience are influential factors in the perceptual tuning process.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Phonological Studies = 音韻研究 : 第18号(2015) = On'in kenkyū : 18 (2015) |
Editors | Phonological Society of Japan |
Place of Publication | Japan |
Publisher | Kaitakusha |
Pages | 51-58 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 9784758920186 |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Dutch language
- Chinese language
- tone (phonetics)
- infants