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Perception mirrors production in 14- and 18-month-olds: the case of coda consonants
1Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition & Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands. c.c.levelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract:
In a word learning experiment, 14- and 18-month-old infants are tested on their perceptual sensitivity to coda-consonant omissions. The results indicate that 14-month-olds are not sensitive to coda consonant omissions, showing a parallel with the omission of target coda consonants in early child language productions. At 18 months, infants are sensitive to coda-omission. The study strengthens the hypothesis that phonological wellformedness constraints influence infants' speech processing in general, and might restrict what is stored in their initial lexical representations. A lexical representation lacking information on the target coda consonant is, in turn, a likely source for coda-omissions in production.
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