Infant perception of /aba/ versus /apa
Building a quantitative model of infant categorical discrimination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9789933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leslie B Cohen (0000-0002-4801-7747, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Randy L Diehl, Lisa M Oakes (0000-0002-6701-2853, The University of Texas at Austin), John C Loehlin (The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-272 |
| Publication date | 1992-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0012-1649.28.2.261 |
| OpenAlex | W2085755121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
Two experiments using a visual habituation paradigm examined 71/2 month-old infants' categorical discrimination of the medial stop consonants /aba/ and /apa/. Infants received digitized natural speech tokens differing in the duration of consonantal closure and in the presence or absence of vocal-fold pulsing. The results provided clear evidence of infant categorical discrimination based solely on closure duration. Infants also shifted their boundary (toward shorter closure durations) if they received pulsing during habituation. A trading relation between closure duration and pulsing was also obtained. Three different quantitative models of infant speech perception were examined. A composite model incorporating categorical discrimination, the boundary shift, and the trading relation produced excellent predictions of infant performance. Application of this model to other aspects of infant speech perception was discussed
Categorical variable · Developmental psychology · Infant development · Perception · Statistics · Early Childhood Education and Development · Language Development and Disorders · Multilingual Education and Policy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2019 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |