Over the past 50 years, scientists have made amazing discoveries about the origins of
human language acquisition. Central to this field of study is the process by which infants' …

Infants rapidly advance in their speech perception, electrophysiologically reflected in the
transition from an immature, positive-going to an adult-like, negative-going mismatch …

Prenatal listening experience reportedly modulates how humans process speech at birth,
but little is known about how speech perception develops throughout the perinatal period …

In the current preregistered study, we tested n= 67 6-month-old Norwegian infants'
discrimination of a native vowel contrast/yi/and a non-native (British) vowel contrast/ʌ-æ/in …

Neural discrimination of auditory contrasts is usually studied via the mismatch negativity
(MMN) component of the event-related potentials (ERPs). In the processing of speech …

Yu & Shafer (2021) ask whether neural processing of the spectral differences between the
English lax vowels/ɪ/and/ɛ/was compatible with an underspecification account in which …

When interacting with young children, talkers across many languages use a speech style
that reflects positive affect, draws infants' attention, and supposedly facilitates language …

Developmental dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder linked to phonological and
speech processing deficits, with a strong hereditary component that allows for the allocation …