Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month-olds: Discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences
Mulak KE, Bonn CD, Chládková K, Aslin RN, Escudero P. Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month-olds: Discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences. PLOS ONE 2017, 12: e0176762. PMID: 28520762, PMCID: PMC5435166, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176762.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIndexical variationLanguage inputInfants' speech processingLarger receptive vocabulariesSame vowel categoryChildren's language inputIndexical variabilityPhoneme acquisitionInfants' sensitivityReceptive vocabularyDifferent accentsSpeech tokensCategory boundariesIndexical cuesLinguistic processingLinguistic cuesDistributional learningIndividual speakersVowel categoriesSpeech processingVowel differencesSpeakersSame speakerLearning contextSpeaker variability