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Context effects in two-month-old infants' perception of labiodental/interdental fricative contrasts.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Levitt, Andrea G. Jusczyk, Peter W. Murray, John Carden, George A. |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Abstract | We investigated 2-month-old infants' perception of a subset of highly confusable English fricatives. In Experiment 1, infants discriminated modified natural tokens of the voiceless fricative pair [fa]/[oa] but only when the syllables included their frication noises. They also discriminated the voiced pair [va]/[oa] both with and without fricative noises. These results parallel those found with adults by Carden, Levitt, Jusczyk, and Walley (1981). In Experiment 2 [f] and [o] noises were appended to [a], and the same [f] noise was appended to the previously indiscriminable fricationless versions of [fa] and [oa]. Infants discriminated both pairs of stimuli, indicating that (a) the frication is a sufficient cue for [fa]/[oa] discrimination and that (b) it provides a context for discriminating the [f] and [o] formant transitions. We conclude that infants' perception of labiodental/interdental fricative contrasts show evidence of context effects similar to those observed with adults. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1037/0096-1523.14.3.361 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/sr/sr091/SR091_02.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 2971766 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.14.3.361 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Issue Number | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
