Sensorimotor influences on speech perception in pre-babbling infants: Replication and extension of Bruderer et al. (2015).

ABSTRACT: The relationship between speech perception and production is central to understanding language processing, yet remains under debate, particularly in early development. Recent research suggests that in infants aged 6 months, when the native phonological system is still being established, sensorimotor information from the articulators influences speech perception: The placement of a teething toy restricting tongue-tip movements interfered with infants' discrimination of a non-native contrast, /Da/-/da/, that involves tongue-tip movement. This effect was selective: A different teething toy that prevented lip closure but not tongue-tip movement did not disrupt discrimination. We conducted two sets of studies to replicate and extend these findings. Experiments 1 and 2 replicated the study by Br

SUBMITTER: Choi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711806 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature