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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Infant Speech Perception"”.
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The Perceptual Draw of Prosody: Infant-Directed Speech within the Context of Declining Nonnative Speech Perception
Infant speech perception develops within the context of specific language experience. While there is a corpus of empirical evidence concerning infants' perception of linguistic and prosodic information in speech, few studies have explored the interaction of the two. The present investigation was …
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Effects of Voice Quality and Face Information on Infants' Speech Perception in Noise
… and Molnar (2008) found that 6- to 8-month-old infants do not discriminate a simple native consonant-vowel contrast when familiarized to it in the presence of distraction noise (i.e., recordings of crickets and birds chirping), even when testing was conducted in quiet. Because the distraction …
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Infant Behavioral Speech Discrimination Procedures: A Systematic Review
… review of literature relating to two behavioral infant speech discrimination procedures to evaluate their potential clinical utility. The two procedures examined were the Observer-based Psychoacoustic Procedure (OPP) and the Visual Reinforcement of Infant Speech Discrimination (VRISD) method. The …
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Changes in the Content and Prosody of Mothers' Speech to Infants Across the First Postnatal Year
… examine the linguistic and prosodic content of infant-directed speech to infants, and to explore the relationship that exists between the prosodic features and the content of this speech, and how this relationship changes over the first eight months after birth. Analyses were conducted on …