Linguistic experience alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age.

By Patricia K. Kuhl, Karen A. Williams, F. Lacerda, Kenneth N. Stevens, B. Lindblom. 1992

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “For example, as the inset in Figure 4 shows, the sensitive period for responsiveness to vowels closes earlier (Kuhl et al., 1992) than for consonants (Polka & Werker, 1994).”
A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes. (2003, methodology): “…becomes warped based on the statistical distribution of speech sounds in the infant's ambient language, reducing perceptual sensitivity near distribution peaks or prototypes (Iverson & Kuhl, 1995, 1996, 2000; Kuhl, 1991; Kuhl et al., 1992) and facilitating later stages of language acquisition.”
The Development and Neural Bases of Face Recognition (2001, background): “However, as infants approach 1 year, the perceptual window begins to narrow, and they behave more like adults— that is, they are best at discriminating those sounds that are native to their own language (Werker and Tess, 1984; Kuhl et al., 1992; Kuhl, 1993; Cheour et al., 1998).”
The loss of first language phonetic perception in adopted Koreans (2004, background): “…research has demonstrated that the attunement to the phonemes of the native language takes place during the first year of life: by age 10 to 12 months, infants are already less sensitive to non-native phonetic contrasts than to native contrasts (Werker &Tees, 1983, 1984 ; Kuhl et al., 1992).”
Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period" (2005, background): “Second, studies show that by 6 months of age, infants respond to the distributional properties of sounds contained in the language they hear and that this alters perception to produce more native-like phonetic processing of both vowels (Grieser & Kuhl, 1989; Kuhl, 1991; Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Ste”
Phonological specificity of vowels and consonants in early lexical representations (2007, background): “Infants’ sensitivity to vowels in their native language is acquired much earlier than similar sensitivity to language-specific consonants (Kuhl et al., 1992).”
Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. (2006, background): “English-and Swedish-learning infants tested with English and Swedish vowels showed greater categorization abilities for native-as opposed to foreignlanguage vowels (Kuhl et al., 1992).”
The development of phonetic representation in bilingual and monolingual infants (2007, background): “Effects of experience are observed in vowel perception by 6 months of age ( Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992; Polka & Werker, 1994) and in consonants by 10–12 months of age (Anderson, Morgan, & White, 2003; Best, McRoberts, LaFleur, & Silver-Isenstadt, 1995; Kuhl et al., 2006; Riv”
Developmental changes in perception of nonnative vowel contrasts. (1994, background): “To date, only two published studies have examined perception of nonnative vowels in young infants, and neither study evaluated developmental changes in vowel perception ( Kuhl, Williams, Lacerda, Stevens, & Lindblom, 1992; Trehub, 1976).”