Language Discrimination by English-Learning 5-Month-Olds: Effects of Rhythm and Familiarity

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Categorization of regional and foreign accent in 5- to 7-year-old British children (2009, background): “…the ability to distinguish regional variations within the native language seems to emerge during the first six months life (Kitamura et al., 2006; Nazzi et al., 2000), after which infants seem to lose the ability to perform these distinctions (Butler et al., 2008; Kitamura et al., 2006; Phan &…”
Early segmentation of fluent speech by infants acquiring French: Emerging evidence for crosslinguistic differences (2006, background): “…investigated, it has been proposed that this bias to attend to global rhythmic patterns allows the emergence of the prosodic/rhythmic segmentation procedure appropriate to the (rhythmic class of the) native language (Nazzi et al., 1998, 2000; Mehler, Dupoux, Nazzi, & Dehaene-Lambertz, 1996).”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, result): “In our lab we found similar results: when the referent was indicated by a pointing interlocutor, 14-month-old infants also showed better performance (Fais et al., 2012).”