Effects of Enriched Auditory Experience on Infants' Speech Perception during the First Year of Life

Autor/inn/en	Zhao, T. Christina; Kuhl, Patricia K.
Titel	Effects of Enriched Auditory Experience on Infants' Speech Perception during the First Year of Life
Quelle	In: Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 46 (2016) 2, S.235-247 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-1538
DOI	10.1007/s11125-017-9397-6
Schlagwörter	Infants; Speech Communication; Auditory Perception; Control Groups; Phonetics; Language Processing; Music; Intervention; Cognitive Processes; Language Acquisition + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Phonetik; Fonetik; Sprachverarbeitung; Musik; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	Infants rapidly learn language in their home environments. Between 6 and 12 months of age, infants' ability to process the building blocks of speech (i.e., phonetic information) develops quickly, and this ability predicts later language development. Typically, developing infants in a monolingual language environment rapidly tune in to the phonetic information of their native language, while their sensitivity to nonnative phonetic information starts to decrease. Yet, enriched experience to a new language during this time significantly improves infants' sensitivity to the sound contrasts used in that language when compared to a control group without exposure to the new language. More recently, a new study examined another type of enriched auditory experience--musical experience--to determine its effect not only on music processing but also on phonetic processing. Results showed that a 1-month laboratory music intervention focusing on rhythm learning enhanced 9-month-old infants' neural processing not only for music but also for speech. Together, these results suggest that these enriched auditory experiences in infancy may improve infants' general auditory pattern-detection skills and their sensitivity to phonetic information. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01