Maturation of Consonant Perception, but Not Vowel Perception, Predicts Lexical Skills at 12 Months

Autor/inn/en	Schaadt, Gesa; Werwach, Annika; Obrig, Hellmuth; Friederici, Angela D.; Männel, Claudia
Titel	Maturation of Consonant Perception, but Not Vowel Perception, Predicts Lexical Skills at 12 Months
Quelle	In: Child Development, 94 (2023) 3, (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schaadt, Gesa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13892
Schlagwörter	Phonemes; Vowels; Infants; German; Language Acquisition; Age Differences; Predictor Variables; Receptive Language; Language Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fonem; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Deutscher; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Prädiktor; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz
Abstract	Consonants and vowels differentially contribute to lexical acquisition. From 8 months on, infants' preferential reliance on consonants has been shown to predict their lexical outcome. Here, the predictive value of German-learning infants' (n = 58, 29 girls, 29 boys) trajectories of consonant and vowel perception, indicated by the electrophysiological mismatch response, across 2, 6, and 10 months for later lexical acquisition was studied. The consonant-perception trajectory from 2 to 6 months ([beta] = -2.95) and 6 to 10 months ([beta] = -0.91), but not the vowel-perception trajectory, significantly predicted receptive vocabulary at 12 months. These results reveal an earlier predictive value of consonant perception for word learning than previously found, and a particular role of the longitudinal maturation of this skill in lexical acquisition. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01