PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing

By Janet F. Werker, Suzanne Curtin. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Critical periods in speech perception: new directions. (2015, background): “…few months in infant’s ability to use native phonological categories to guide the learning of new words (Stager & Werker 1997), they are able to succeed by 17 months (Werker et al. 2002) and can succeed at younger ages when the computational load is lighter (for a review, see Werker & Curtin 2005).”
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning (2008, background): “Adult speech exerts a canalizing effect on the development of phonological categories by the time infants are 8 to 10 months old, leading to the formation of perceptual categories that match the phonemic contrasts present in the language environment (Jusczyk, 1992; Werker & Curtin, 2005).”
Learning to Learn: Infants’ Acquisition of Stress-Based Strategies for Word Segmentation (2007, background): “For example, what infants learn about the phonemic inventory of their language is crucial for subsequently learning words ( Werker & Curtin, 2005 ).”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, methodology): “…that infants can discriminate syllables differing in single phonetic features, whether they be in the initial consonant; in place, manner, or voicing; or in the height or roundedness of the vowel (Eimas, Siqueland, Jusczyk, & Vigorito, 1971; see Kuhl, 2004, and Werker & Curtin, 2005, for reviews).”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “An extensive literature on developmental speech perception exists and brain measures are adding substantially to our knowledge of phonetic development and learning (see Kuhl, 2004; Kuhl et al., 2008; Werker and Curtin, 2005).”
The Perceptual Acquisition of Phonological Contrasts (2004, background): “It would be possible, however, to account for many of the same results in terms of acoustic salience (Fennell & Werker 2003, Werker & Curtin 2004), given that unmarked contrasts tend to be acoustically salient.”
Computational modeling of phonetic and lexical learning in early language acquisition: Existing models and future directions (2012, background): “[43] Curtin, S., Mintz, T. H., & Byrd, D., 2001.”
Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults (2007, background): “Given the robustness of the reported contribution of phonological and morphological awareness in language learning, including studies using formal phonological awareness test battery for assessing reading acquisition (e.g., Berninger, 2001), as well as studies suggesting that phoneme (consonant) ide”
The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants (2007, unknown): “Alternatively, it is known that different tasks result in different patterns of results when studying infants (Werker & Curtin, 2005); for example, McMurray and Aslin (2005) have shown that 8-month-old infants can perceive the VOT continuum in a gradient fashion.”
Beyond babytalk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants (2007, background): “In the domain of speech perception, a number of recent models have successfully incorporated dynamic views of the infants’ perceptual mechanisms (e.g. Jusczyk, 1997; Morgan, in preparation; Werker & Curtin, 2005).”
Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories: Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input (2021, background): “, for each vowel and consonant separately—along a set of languageindependent phonetic dimensions (9, 19, 20).”
The Relationship Between Infants’ Production Experience and Their Processing of Speech (2014, background): “A first line of research suggests that infants must construct the link, and thus acquire phonological units from the linguistic environment, on the basis of perceptual experience alone (e.g., Jusczyk, 1992, 1993, 1997; Kuhl, 2004; Werker & Curtin, 2005; Werker & Yeung, 2005).”
Cognitive Science in the era of Artificial Intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner (2016, unknown): “PRIMIR (Werker & Curtin, 2005) extends WRAPSA by incorporating phonetic and speaker-related categories at an early stage, and meaning and phonemic categories at a later stage.”
Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. (2006, methodology): “In contrast, NLM/NC (and perhaps frameworks such as PRIMIR, which also emphasizes distributional cues, see Werker & Curtin, 2005) predicts an increase in performance with age, rather than a decline.”