Infants' sensitivity to vowel and tonal contrasts.
Developmental PsychologyPublished 1 July 1973
Sandra E. Trehub
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Abstract
McGill UniversityInfants 4 to 17 weeks of age were presented with sound which was con-tingent upon nonnutritive sucking. When the infants gave evidence ofsatiation to the initial stimulus, a contrasting sound was substituted. Sig-nificant response recovery was found when the stimuli were vowel con-trasts but was absent when the stimuli were tones differing in frequency.
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