Infants' Ability to Learn Phonetically Similar Words: Effects of Age and Vocabulary Size

By Janet F. Werker, C. Fennell, K. Corcoran, C. Stager. 2002

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational 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).”
Sub-Segmental Detail in Early Lexical Representations. (2008, background): “Yet even when processing demands are reduced, learners sometimes still fail to demonstrate sensitivity to phonological detail (Stager & Werker, 1997; Werker, Fennell, Corcoran, & Stager, 2002 ).”
On the Learning of Arbitrary Phonological Rules (2005, background): “Although Stager and Werker (1997; Werker, Fennell, Corcoran, & Stager, 2002 ) concluded that in tasks involving two unfamiliar words 14-month-old infants do not seem to be able to represent this level of phonetic detail and cannot differentiate between bih and dih, recently Fennell and Werker (2003”
Phonological specificity in early words (2002, background): “A recent study by Werker, Fennell, Corcoran, and Stager (2002) offers evidence in support of the developmental hypothesis.”
Phonological development: toward a “radical” templatic phonology (2007, background): “…it has become increasingly clear that the deployment of these capacities in relation to the discrimination of minimally distinct word forms requires additional attentional resources, at the very least, and constitutes a novel task for one-year-olds (Stager and Werker 1997; Werker et al. 2002).”
PRIMIR: A Developmental Framework of Infant Speech Processing (2005, background): “…even at 14 months, those infants with larger vocabularies are better able to use the phonetic detail when learning novel words in the Switch word-learning task (Werker et al., 2002; see also Beckman & Edwards, 2000, for a model predicting a relation between vocabulary size and phonetic detail).”
Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code (2004, background): “, and, once infants begin to associate words with objects — a task that challenges phonetic perceptio”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “These early studies indicated that infants fail to perform reliably on minimal pair distinctions until 18–20 months of age (Werker et al., 2002), and can continue to have difficulty until an even later age if they are growing up bilingual (Fennell, Byers-Heinlein, & Werker, 2007).”
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”
Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period" (2005, background): “Werker and her colleagues (Mills et al., 2004; Stager & Werker, 1997; Werker, Fennell, Corcoran, & Stager, 2002 ) showed that infants’ phonetic abilities are challenged under these conditions.”