Tuned to the Signal: The Privileged Status of Speech for Young Infants

Autor/inn/en	Vouloumanos, Athena; Werker, Janet F.
Titel	Tuned to the Signal: The Privileged Status of Speech for Young Infants
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 7 (2004) 3, S.270-276 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00345.x
Schlagwörter	Infants; Speech Communication; Intonation; Auditory Perception; Attention + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Aufmerksamkeit
Abstract	Do young infants treat speech as a special signal, compared with structurally similar non-speech sounds? We presented 2- to 7-month-old infants with nonsense speech sounds and complex non-speech analogues. The non-speech analogues retain many of the spectral and temporal properties of the speech signal, including the pitch contour information which is known to be salient to young listeners, and thus provide a stringent test for a potential listening bias for speech. Our results show that infants as young as 2 months of age listened longer to speech sounds. This listening selectivity indicates that early-functioning biases direct infants' attention to speech, granting speech a special status in relation to other sounds. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10