Allophonic and Phonemic Contrasts in Infants' Learning of Sound Patterns
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Acoustic correlates of phonological status and their effect on phonological processing
Recent work has shown that by 11 months, infants process sounds differently depending on whether they are in an allophonic relationship in the infants' ambient language (i.e., nasal and oral vowels in American English) or a phonemic one (i.e., nasal and oral vowels in Quebec French; Seidl et al., 2009). Previous experimental work suggests that adults' perceptual similarity and lexical access is...
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