Infants’ neural speech discrimination predicts individual differences in grammar ability at 6 years of age and their risk of developing speech-language disorders

The ‘sensitive period’ for phonetic learning posits that between 6 and 12 months of age, infants’ discrimination of native and nonnative speech sounds diverge. Individual differences in this dynamic processing of speech have been shown to predict later language acquisition up to 30 months of age, us...

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Main Authors: T. Christina Zhao, Olivia Boorom, Patricia K. Kuhl, Reyna Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929321000402