Infant Discrimination of a Morphologically Relevant Word-Final Contrast

Autor/inn/en	Fais, Laurel; Kajikawa, Sachiyo; Amano, Shigeaki; Werker, Janet F.
Titel	Infant Discrimination of a Morphologically Relevant Word-Final Contrast
Quelle	In: Infancy, 14 (2009) 4, S.488-499 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-0008
Schlagwörter	Infants; English; Verbal Ability; Phonemes; Habituation; Morphology (Languages); Phonetics; Cues; Eye Movements; Stimuli + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; English language; Englisch; Mündliche Leistung; Fonem; Morphology; Morphologie; Phonetik; Fonetik; Stichwort; Augenbewegung; Anreizsystem
Abstract	Six-, 12-, and 18-month-old English-hearing infants were tested on their ability to discriminate nonword forms ending in the final stop consonants /k/ and /t/ from their counterparts with final /s/ added, resulting in final clusters /ks/ and /ts/, in a habituation-dishabituation, looking time paradigm. Infants at all 3 ages demonstrated an ability to discriminate this type of contrast, a contrast that constitutes one phonetic cue for the English morphological concepts of plural, possession, and person. These results suggest that across a significant portion of the development of infants' speech perception, this type of final contrast is discriminable. (Contains 5 footnotes, 1 table and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10