Learning words' sounds before learning how words sound: 9-month-olds use distinct objects as cues to categorize speech information.

By H. H. Yeung, Janet F. Werker. 2009

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “For example, Yeung and Werker (2009) found that maintenance (or reactivation of sensitivity) to non-native distinctions does not require that infants engage in contingent interactions but, simply, that non-native sounds be paired with distinct objects.”
Perceptual beginnings to language acquisition (2018, background): “…is contingent social interaction, even without an explicitly presented bimodal versus unimodal massed presentation (Kuhl, Tsao, & Liu, 2003; Meltzoff & Kuhl, 2016), and/or when the phonetic category bifurcation or collapse co-occurs with the presentation of distinct objects (Yeung & Werker, 2009).”
The Biological Implausibility of the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy & What It Means for the Study of Infancy (2011, unknown): “This is the case for non-native phonetic contrasts (Kuhl, Tsao, & Liu, 2003; Yeung & Werker, 2009), musical meter (Hannon & Trehub, 2005b), faces (Pascalis, et al., 2005; Scott & Monesson, 2009), and other-race faces (Sangrigoli, Pallier, Argenti, Ventureyra, & de Schonen, 2005).”
The Relationship Between Infants’ Production Experience and Their Processing of Speech (2014, unknown): “…factors such as attention (Werker & Lalonde, 1988; Werker & Pegg, 1992), distributional learning (Maye, Werker, & Gerken, 2002; Anderson, Morgan, & White, 2003), referential mapping (Yeung & Werker, 2009), and the articulatory gestures that shape linguistic units (Best & McRoberts, 2003).”
Critical periods in speech perception: new directions. (2015, background): “Similarly, if two nonnative consonant sounds are paired with two different objects in a quasi word-learning situation, infants 9–10 months of age also regain sensitivity to a nonnative speech sound contrast (Yeung & Werker 2009).”
Distributional Phonetic Learning at 10 Months of Age. (2010, background): “Familiarization procedures with multiple stimulus tokens typically produce a preference for the nonalternating trials (Maye et al., 2002; Teinonen et al., 2008; Yeung & Werker, 2009).”