Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life

By Janet F. Werker, R. C. Tees. 1984

Subfields: Speech & Audio, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Unsupervised Speech Recognition (2021, background): “On the other hand, humans learn a lot about speech simply by listening to others around them and without explicit supervision (Werker and Tees, 1984; Hirsh-Pasek et al., 1987; Polka and Werker, 1994; Jusczyk et al., 1999; Johnson and Jusczyk, 2001).”
The zero resource speech challenge 2017 (2017, background): “This so-called perceptual tuning develops substantially during the first year of life [13, 14].”
Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “In the first of these studies, Werker and Tees (1984) found that 6–8 month old English-learning infants discriminated non-native consonants (i.e., the Hindi retroflex /Da/ vs. the dental /da/ and the Thompson glottalized velar /k’i/ vs. the uvular /q’i/) but that 10- to 12-monthold infants no…”
Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner (2016, positive): “However, they start learning about the sequential structure of phonemes (phonotactics, see Jusczyk, Friederici, Wessels, Svenkerud, & Jusczyk, 1993) way before they are done acquiring the phoneme inventory (Werker & Tees, 1984).”
When timing is everything: Age of first-language acquisition effects on second-language learning (2007, background): “Early L1 exposure appears to tune the visual system for phonology, just as it tunes the auditory system for the same linguistic structure (Werker & Tees, 1984).”
Discovering linguistic structures in speech: models and applications (2014, background): “There is abundant evidence showing that infants are capable of discriminating between different phonemes and learning to recognize language-specific phonetic categories at an early age [98, 48, 118, 184, 18, 99].”
The myth of language universals: language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. (2009, background): “Rhythmic and distributional information provide cues to segmentation (Jusczyk 1997; Werker & Curtin 2005; Werker & Tees 1984).”
Infants' preference for the predominant stress patterns of English words. (1993, background): “For example, Werker and her colleagues (Werker & Lalonde, 1988; Werker & Tees, 1984) have documented a decline in sensitivity during the latter half of the first year of life by infants from English-speaking homes to certain phonetic contrasts not found in English (but see also Best, McRoberts, &…”
Where Do Illusory Vowels Come from (2011, unknown): “The perceptual system is said to become attuned to the native language during the first years of life (Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992; Kuhl et al., 2008; Werker & Tees, 1984).”
Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts. (1994, methodology): “In an attempt to map out the age at which language experience first exerts an influence on phonetic perception, Werker and Tees (1983, 1984) compared children and infants of various ages on their ability to discriminate native and nonnative consonant contrasts.”
Learning phonetic categories by learning a lexicon (2009, background): “Discrimination of non-native speech sound contrasts declines during the same time period, between 6 and 12 months ( Werker & Tees, 1984 ).”
A crosslinguistic investigation of vowel formants in babbling (1989, methodology): “), French and Hong Kong Cantonese, we used frequency counts from Fry (1947), Wioland (1972) and Fok (1979) respectively. For formant values we used Henton (1983), Longchamp (in press) and Lee (1985) respectively.”
Brief daily exposures to Asian females reverses perceptual narrowing for Asian faces in Caucasian infants (2012, unknown): “…in infants’ better discriminatory abilities for native speech sounds over non-native speech sounds (Polka & Werker, 1994; Werker & Lalonde, 1988; Werker & Tees, 2002), different female voices speaking a native language over different female voices speaking a non-native language (Johnson,…”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “At the neurophysiological level, our initial findings (e.g., Werker & Tees, 1984) were taken as potential evidence for pruning of exuberant connectivity, with initial preparation for discrimination of both native and nonnative distinctions and subsequent refinement to just native ones.”
The role of accentual pattern in early lexical representation (2004, background): “... we find evidence for increasing familiarity responses to native vs. non-native segmental patterns (Jusczyk et al., 1993b; Jusczyk, Luce, & Charles-Luce, 1994), and by 10–12 months we see a loss of capacity for discriminating non-native consonantal contrasts, from which an attentional shift shape”