Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age.
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Linguistic experience affects phonetic perception. However, the critical period during which experience affects perception and the mechanism responsible for these effects are unknown. This study of 6-month-old infants from two countries, the United States and Sweden, shows that exposure to a specific language in the first half year of life alters infants' phonetic perception.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 255 5044 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992