How do 4-day-old infants categorize multisyllabic utterances?
Developmental PsychologyPublished 1 July 1993
Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, Josiane Bertoncini, Jacques Mehler
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Abstract
Three experiments, using the high-amplitude sucking procedure, tested whether 4-day-old infants discriminate multisyllabic utterances on the basis of number of syllables or number of phonemes. Experiment 1 showed that infants discriminate 2 large sets of phonetically variable utterances composed of 2- vs. 3-CV (consonant-vowel) syllables. Experiment 2 was run to assess whether infants discriminated the 2 sets on the basis of duration differences between the 2- and 3-CV stimuli. Results indicate that reducing the duration differences does not affect infants'discrimination. Finally, Experiment 3 investigated whether infants discriminate 4- vs. 6-phoneme bisyllabic utterances. The results provide no evidence that infants are sensitive to such a change in number of phonemic constituents
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