在6个月大的挪威婴儿中,原生和非原生母音的歧视
Audun Rosslund1, Julien Mayor2, Alejandrina Cristia3
1Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Norway.
Infant behavior & development
|September 19, 2024
概括
六个月大的婴儿无法区分母语和非母语的母音. 探索性分析表明了权衡,可能表明婴儿语音感知中的早期语言重组.
科学领域:
- 语言学的语言学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 听觉感知是一种听觉感知.
背景情况:
- 婴儿的语音感知能力在生命的第一年迅速发展.
- 早期的语言接触塑造了婴儿感知母语声音的能力.
- 了解婴儿时期的元音歧视对于语言学习研究至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查6个月大的挪威婴儿区分母语 (/y-i/) 和非母语 (/ʌ-æ/) 的母音对比的能力.
- 探索母语和非母语语音的歧视之间的潜在关系.
主要方法:
- 一项预先注册的研究涉及67名6个月龄的挪威婴儿.
- 利用眼睛追踪习惯范式来测量听觉歧视.
- 呈现了母语和非母语元音对比,以评估感知能力.
主要成果:
- 在群体层面上,婴儿对于母语或非母语母音对比都没有显著的歧视.
- 探索性分析表明了负相关性:较好的本地对比歧视与较差的非本地对比歧视相关.
- 没有婴儿区分两种对比,也没有婴儿区分非本地对比.
结论:
- 6个月大的婴儿可能无法在团体层面上区分这些特定的母语和非母语母音对比.
- 观察到的负相关性表明,可能会向母语声音感知转变.
- 研究结果可能表明,婴儿正在开始感知重组,优先考虑母语声音.
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