Critical periods in speech perception: new directions.

By Janet F. Werker, Takao K. Hensch. Annual Review of Psychology, 2015

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Encoding of phonology in a recurrent neural model of grounded speech (2017, background): “Experimental evidence suggests that infants can discriminate both native and nonnative speech sound differences up to 8 months of age, but have difficulty discriminating acoustically similar nonnative contrasts by 10-12 months of age (Werker and Hensch, 2015).”
Advancing the understanding of autism disease mechanisms through genetics (2016, unknown): “Yet, given the developmental roles of many ASD risk genes, we must acknowledge that there may be critical periods for certain treatment modalities 249,265 .”
Child-Directed Speech Is Infrequent in a Forager-Farmer Population: A Time Allocation Study. (2019, unknown): “Some describe this aspect of language acquisition as being similar to that found in certain songbird species, for whom the end of the critical period is the joint result of maturation and exposure to a tutor who produces contingent input (Kuhl, 2004; Werker & Hensch, 2015).”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “Given that this work was reviewed fairly comprehensively in Werker and Hensch (2015), it will not be the focus of the current paper.”