In this article, we provide a critical review of the literature on speech perception and
phonological processing in infancy, and in populations with different experiential histories as …

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' …

Like its predecessor, the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) focuses on the learning of
L2 vowels and consonants (or “sounds,” for short) across the life-span. To define the context …

Abstract Language experience systematically constrains perception of speech contrasts that
deviate phonologically and/or phonetically from those of the listener's native language …

Acoustic measurements were made of the voice onset time (VOT) and vowel formants (F 1–F
3) in French and English words spoken by native French subjects who were highly …

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

Native speakers of Japanese learning English generally have difficulty differentiating the
phonemes/r/and/l/, even after years of experience with English. Previous research that …

Two experiments were carried out to extend Logan et al.'s recent study [JS Logan, SE Lively,
and DB Pisoni, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 89, 874–886 (1991)] on training Japanese listeners to …

Infants' speech perception skills show a dual change towards the end of the first year of life.
Not only does non-native speech perception decline, as often shown, but native language …

Patterns of developmental change in phonetic perception are critical to theory development.
Many previous studies document a decline in nonnative phonetic perception between 6 and …