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Infant speech perception bootstraps word learning.

Janet F Werker1, H Henny Yeung

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada. jwerker@psych.ubc.ca

Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|October 6, 2005
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Infants

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Speech Perception

Background:

  • Infant word learning involves conceptual changes and perceptual sophistication.
  • Developmental steps include segmenting, identifying, and representing phonetic forms of words.
  • Mapping word forms to concepts is a key aspect of early language acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent research on how infants' perceptual systems develop for word learning.
  • To explore the progression from initial speech sensitivity to learning language-specific sound patterns.
  • To examine the crucial role of speech perception in bootstrapping phonological development.

Main Methods:

  • Review of recent developmental psychology and cognitive science research.

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  • Analysis of theoretical frameworks and emerging methodologies in infant speech perception.
  • Synthesis of studies on perceptual system unfolding during word acquisition.

    • Main Results:

    • Infants' perceptual systems undergo significant development to support word learning.
    • Speech perception is essential for infants to learn language-specific sound patterns.
    • Early speech perception abilities are foundational for later phonological development.

    Conclusions:

    • Speech perception is critical for word learning in infants.
    • Perceptual development in infancy bootstraps the formation of a phonological system.
    • This system links auditory speech input to conceptual meaning, facilitating language acquisition.