Perceiving onset clusters in infancy |
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| Authors: | Archer Stephanie L Curtin Suzanne |
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| Affiliation: | aDepartment of Linguistics, University of Calgary, Canada;bDepartments of Linguistics and Psychology, 2500 University Drive NW, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada |
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| Abstract: | By 9-months infants are sensitive to native-language sound combinations. Our studies show that while younger infants discriminate clusters, they are not sensitive to differences in statistical frequency. Thus, the emergence of phonotactic knowledge is driven by experience with the frequency of occurrence of the sound combinations in one's language. |
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| Keywords: | Speech development Infancy Phonotactics |
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