Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: a look from the perspective of the same/different distinction

We review the existing evidence, behavioral and neural, of infants’ ability to encode repetition- (‘same’) diversity- (‘different’) based regularities in speech. These studies show that, from birth, infants exhibit a robust capacity for learning repetition-based rules speech (e.g. AAB or ABA, which A = A). Further, generalize such structures is not strictly language-specific, as extract musical tones, animal pictures, abstract geometrical shapes, faces under some conditions. However, this strongest when presented with other communicative/meaningful stimuli. Additionally importantly, recent brain-imaging suggest that by six months age, also distinctly notion difference This youngest age at has been shown.