Visual speech contributes to phonetic learning in 6-month-old infants
Teinonen T, Aslin RN, Alku P, Csibra G. Visual speech contributes to phonetic learning in 6-month-old infants. Cognition 2008, 108: 850-855. PMID: 18590910, DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.05.009.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAttentionCuesFemaleHumansInfantLanguage DevelopmentLipreadingMalePhoneticsSpeech PerceptionConceptsVisual speechPhoneme discriminationVisual articulationPhonetic category learningPhonetic learningAuditory tokensCategory learningFacial displaysPreference procedureLanguage developmentSame syllablePhoneme boundariesSpeech articulationVisual informationSpeechVowel articulationPrevious researchGroups of infantsLearningUnimodal frequency distributionsParticular infantArticulationDiscriminationSyllablesTokens