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Listeners attune their speech perception to their native language's phonology. This adaptation hinders processing non-native languages, impacting second language acquisition and perception, even in infants.

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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech Perception
  • Phonological Structure

Background:

  • Languages exhibit diverse phonological structures.
  • Speech perception is influenced by native language phonological regularities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review research on how native language phonology shapes speech perception.
  • To explore the consequences for processing non-native languages.
  • To examine the early developmental emergence of this attunement.

Main Methods:

  • Review of existing psycholinguistic research.
  • Analysis of studies on adult second language learners.
  • Examination of infant studies on phonological processing.

Main Results:

  • Listeners' perceptual processes adapt to exploit native language phonological regularities.
  • This adaptation creates difficulties in perceiving non-native languages.
  • Infants as young as a few months old are sensitive to language-specific phonological regularities.

Conclusions:

  • Native language attunement in speech perception is a significant factor in second language learning.
  • Early-life phonological attunement influences cross-linguistic perception.
  • Native language listening procedures can interfere with non-native language processing.