Morae and Syllables
Rhythmical Basis of Speech Representations in Neonates
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255184 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Josiane Bertoncini (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, corresponding author), Caroline Floccia (0000-0003-3931-9791, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique), Thierry Nazzi (0000-0002-4378-3661, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique), Jacques Mehler (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 311-329 |
| Publication date | 1995-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383099503800401 |
| PMID | 8816088 |
| OpenAlex | W2161922070 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 18 |
Are neonates sensitive to the different rhythmical units that are used in different spoken languages? And do they use these units to represent and discriminate multisyllabic words? In the present study, we used the High-Amplitude Sucking procedure to test whether 3-day-old French infants discriminate lists of Japanese words. The lists of words differed either in the number of syllabic units or in the number of sub-syllabic units such as morae. In Experiment 1, infants heard bisyllabic versus trisyllabic words (e.g.: iga vs. hekiga); in Experiment 2, they were presented with bimoraic versus trimoraic bisyllabic words (e.g.: iga vs. iNga). The results corroborate those obtained by Bijeljac-Babic, Bertoncini, and Mehler (1993), providing further evidence that neonates discriminate bisyllabic from trisyllabic words. In contrast, neonates do not appear to discriminate bisyllabic words that vary in number of sub-syllabic units. It is proposed that syllables are particularly salient units during the initial stage of speech processing, irrespective of which language and rhythmical structure is heard
Audiology · Contrast (vision · Linguistics · Phonetics · Phonology · Salient · Speech recognition · Syllabic verse · Artificial Intelligence · Communication · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
Language, Brain, and Cognitive Development
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0.54 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2024 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |