Three- and four-year-olds’ perceptual confusions for spoken words
Gerken L, Murphy W, Aslin R. Three- and four-year-olds’ perceptual confusions for spoken words. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 1995, 57: 475-486. PMID: 7596745, DOI: 10.3758/bf03213073.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLexical representationsFeatural overlapHolistic hypothesisSpoken-word recognitionAcoustic-phonetic propertiesMinimal word pairsYoung childrenReason young childrenNonword stimuliSpeech contrastsTarget wordsWord recognitionMental lexiconWord pairsPhonetic segmentsAuditory stimuliSpoken wordsPerceptual confusionWord positionPhonetic featuresTest stimuliStimuliSingle featureChildrenWords