How consonants and vowels shape spoken-language recognition

T Nazzi, A Cutler - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
All languages instantiate a consonant/vowel contrast. This contrast has processing
consequences at different levels of spoken-language recognition throughout the lifespan. In …

Impacts of acoustic‐phonetic variability on perceptual development for spoken language: A review

C Quam, SC Creel - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews research on when acoustic‐phonetic variability facilitates, inhibits, or
does not impact perceptual development for spoken language, to illuminate mechanisms by …

The what and when of universal perception: A review of early speech sound acquisition

K Chládková, N Paillereau - Language Learning, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The young universal listener is an established concept in psycholinguistics. However, it is
unclear what abilities universal perception entails and at what age it exists. This article aims …

Developmental change in English‐learning children's interpretations of salient pitch contours in word learning

C Quam, D Swingley - Infancy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To efficiently recognize words, children learning an intonational language like English
should avoid interpreting pitch‐contour variation as signaling lexical contrast, despite the …

Introducing Meta‐analysis in the Evaluation of Computational Models of Infant Language Development

MA Cruz Blandón, A Cristia, O Räsänen - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Computational models of child language development can help us understand the cognitive
underpinnings of the language learning process, which occurs along several linguistic …

[HTML][HTML] Accent discrimination abilities during the first days of life: an fNIRS study

V Giordano, J Alexopoulos, A Spagna… - Brain and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans are biologically endowed with the faculty of language. However, the way neonates
can crack this complex communicative code is yet not totally understood. While phonetic …

When speaker identity is unavoidable: Neural processing of speaker identity cues in natural speech

A Tuninetti, K Chládková, V Peter, NO Schiller… - Brain and language, 2017 - Elsevier
Speech sound acoustic properties vary largely across speakers and accents. When
perceiving speech, adult listeners normally disregard non-linguistic variation caused by …

Learning to recognize unfamiliar voices: An online study with 12-and 24-month-olds

AJ Orena, AS Mader, JF Werker - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Young infants are attuned to the indexical properties of speech: they can recognize highly
familiar voices and distinguish them from unfamiliar voices. Less is known about how and …

A new proposal for phoneme acquisition: Computing speaker-specific distribution

M Choi, M Shukla - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Speech is an acoustically variable signal, and one of the sources of this variation is the
presence of multiple speakers. Empirical evidence has suggested that adult listeners …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of computational models of infant language development against robust empirical data from meta-analyses: what, why, and how?

MAC Blandón, A Cristia, O Räsänen - 2021 - researchgate.net
Computational models of child language development can help us understand the cognitive
underpinnings of the language learning process. One advantage of computational modeling …