Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months.

By Patricia K. Kuhl, Erica Stevens, Akiko Hayashi, Toshisada Deguchi, Shigeru Kiritani, Paul Iverson. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “One of these studies has shown that native-language experience not only leads to the narrowing of perceptual sensitivity to a non-native language but that it also facilitates the discrimination of native-language phonetic contrasts between 6 and 12 months of age (Kuhl et al., 2006).”
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].”
Distributional Phonetic Learning at 10 Months of Age. (2010, background): “Indeed, between 6 and 10 months of age, infants not only maintain, but improve discrimination on native contrasts (Kuhl et al., 2006; Narayan et al., in press).”
The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants (2007, background): “Recent evidence has also emerged for experiential facilitation of native contrast discrimination (Kuhl et al., 2006; Polka, Colantonio, & Sundara, 2001; Rivera-Gaxiola et al., 2005; Sundara, Polka, & Genesee, 2006).”
A Domain-General Theory of the Development of Perceptual Discrimination (2007, background): “experience-driven maintenance of native contrasts, there is also evidence of facilitation of these native contrasts (Kuhl et al., 2006).”
Bilingual Minds (2009, background): “…Siqueland, Jusczyk, & Vigorito, 1971), but their ability to perceive these contrasts in languages that are not heard in the environment (e.g., /r/ vs. /l/ for children being raised in Japanese homes) begins to decline at about 6 months of age (Werker & Tees, 1984; see also Kuhl et al., 2006).”
Computational modeling of phonetic and lexical learning in early language acquisition: Existing models and future directions (2012, background): “, [1]), whereas sensitivity to non-significant non-native contrasts decreases [2].”
Infants' Perception of Intonation: Is It a Statement or a Question? (2014, background): “For native contrasts, at least two different paths seem to be possible: an initial sensitivity in the first half of the first year of life that is maintained in the second half (Polka, Colantonio, & Sundara, 2001), or an initially poor sensitivity followed by sensitivity gains (Kuhl et al., 2006; Na”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “American infants tested on the English /r–l/ contrast showed a statistically significant improvement between 6 and 12 months of age (Kuhl et al. 2006; figure 2).”
ABX-Discriminability Measures and Applications. (Mesures de discriminabilité ABX et applications) (2016, background): “For example, a baby exposed to English speech retain the ability to distinguish between the /r/ and /l/ sounds of English, while a baby exposed to Japanese, a language where there is no equivalent of this phonetic contrast, quickly learns to ignore it [2].”
Narrowing of intersensory speech perception in infancy (2009, background): “This narrowing leads to a decline in responsiveness to phonetic contrasts that are not phonemically relevant in the infant’s native language (3, 7, 8).”
The Evolution of Tag-Based Cooperation in Humans (2012, result): “Kuhl et al. (2006) compared American and Japanese infants’ abilities to discriminate the American l-r contrast.”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, methodology): “…at 7.5 months (C, left) and vocabulary growth for MMN values of +1 SD and 1 SD on the nonnative contrast at 7.5 months (C, right) (adapted from Kuhl et al., 2008). was measured in the same infants at 7.5 months of age, better native language perception predicted significantly higher language…”