The impact of alphabetic literacy on the perception of speech sounds

The aim of the present study was to evaluate impact literacy on phoneme perception. It built previous research by using more controlled stimuli than in former studies and independently examining impacts age Participants were adult children beginning readers, skilled readers. They presented with identification discrimination tasks, a voicing continuum. In addition their categorical perception speech sounds precision phonemic categories, participants' level carefully evaluated. results confirmed that neither nor modulated However, did have significant which independent from influence age.