Effects of early linguistic experience on speech discrimination by infants: a critique of Eiler, Gavin, and Wilson (1979).
Aslin R, Pisoni D. Effects of early linguistic experience on speech discrimination by infants: a critique of Eiler, Gavin, and Wilson (1979). Child Development 1980, 51: 107-12. PMID: 7363730, PMCID: PMC3514872, DOI: 10.2307/1129596.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEarly linguistic experienceSpeech perceptionLinguistic experienceVoice onset time discriminationLanguage-learning environmentsExperimenter bias effectsSpeech contrastsEnglish infantsEilers et alDevelopmental courseTime discriminationSpeech discriminationDiscrimination dataYoung infantsGroups of infantsBias effectEarly experiencePerceptionConceptual groundsExperienceDiscriminationMethodological flawsSerious criticismGavinCritique