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Investigating the differing role of consonants and vowels in word processing
… and Mehler (2003), there is an asymmetry between consonants and vowels in language processing, with consonants being more involved at the lexical level, and vowels serving as preferential cues for grammar and prosody. The privileged role of consonants during lexical access has been demonstrated in …
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The Phonetic Specificity of British English-Learning Infants’ Word Form Recognition in Their First Year of Life
Consonants and vowels have been proposed to have distinct functions in speech perception: a consonant bias for lexical processing and a vowel bias for syntactic/prosodic processing (Nespor et al., 2003). Research in adults has consistently demonstrated that consonants have a privileged role in …