Non-linguistic Influences on Infants' Nonnative Phoneme Perception: Exaggerated prosody and Visual Speech Information Aid Discrimination
Research indicates that infants lose the capacity to perceive distinctions in nonnative sounds as they become sensitive to the speech sounds of their native language (i.e., by 10- to 12-months of age). However, investigations into the decline in nonnative phonetic perception have neglected to exami...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27640 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05112000-14500056/ |