2007
Statistical phonetic learning in infants: facilitation and feature generalization
Maye J, Weiss DJ, Aslin RN. Statistical phonetic learning in infants: facilitation and feature generalization. Developmental Science 2007, 11: 122-134. PMID: 18171374, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00653.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhonetic inputNon-native speech contrastsInfant speech perceptionSame phonetic featureSpeech contrastsPhonetic learningDifficult contrastsPhonetic contrastsSpeech perceptionPhonetic informationFeatural representationPhonetic featuresPhonetic systemNative languageBimodal statistical distributionForeign languageDiscrimination patternsInput languageListenersLanguageFeature generalizationProcess of enhancementStatistical accountDiscriminationWerker
1995
Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech
Jusczyk P, Aslin R. Infants′ Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech. Cognitive Psychology 1995, 29: 1-23. PMID: 7641524, DOI: 10.1006/cogp.1995.1010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTarget wordsFluent speechNon-word targetsDifferent monosyllabic wordsSimilar sounding wordsUnfamiliar wordsSentential contextInfants' capacityPhonetic segmentsMonosyllabic wordsSpeech contextPhonetic featuresExperiment 3Experiment 4Experiment 1Test passagesTest phaseSound patternsFamiliarization periodWordsSpeechMonths of ageAmerican infantsSentencesContextThree- 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