Linguistic Experience Alters Phonetic Perception in Infants by 6 Months of Age
Abstract
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.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- January 1992
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.1736364
- Bibcode:
- 1992Sci...255..606K