A novel form of perceptual attunement: context-dependent perception of a native contrast in 14-month-old infants

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• dc.contributor.author Fort, Mathilde
• dc.contributor.author Brusini, Perrine
• dc.contributor.author Carbajal, M. Julia
• dc.contributor.author Sun, Yue
• dc.contributor.author Peperkamp, Sharon
• dc.date.accessioned 2023-12-19T07:01:02Z
• dc.date.available 2023-12-19T07:01:02Z
• dc.date.issued 2017
• dc.description.abstract By the end of their first year of life, infants have become experts in discriminating the sounds of their native language, while they have lost the ability to discriminate non-native contrasts. This type of phonetic learning is referred to as perceptual attunement. In the present study, we investigated the emergence of a context-dependent form of perceptual attunement in infancy. Indeed, some native contrasts are not discriminated in certain phonological contexts by adults, due to the presence of a language-specific process that neutralizes the contrasts in those contexts. We used a mismatch design and recorded high-density Electroencephalography (EEG) in French-learning 14-month-olds. Our results show that similarly to French adults, infants fail to discriminate a native voicing contrast (e.g., [f] vs. [v]) when it occurs in a specific phonological context (e.g. [ofbe] vs. [ovbe], no mismatch response), while they successfully detected it in other phonological contexts (e.g., [ofne] vs. [ovne], mismatch response). The present results demonstrate for the first time that by the age of 14 months, infants’ phonetic learning does not only rely on the processing of individual sounds, but also takes into account in a language-specific manner the phonological contexts in which these sounds occur.
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• dc.identifier.citation Fort M, Brusini P, Carbajal MJ, Sun Y, Peperkamp S. A novel form of perceptual attunement: context-dependent perception of a native contrast in 14-month-old infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2017 Aug;26:45-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.04.006
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.04.006
• dc.identifier.issn 1878-9293
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58585
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2017 Aug;26:45-51
• dc.rights This article is available under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND license and permits non-commercial use of the work as published, without adaptation or alteration provided the work is fully attributed.
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• dc.subject.keyword Perceptual attunement
• dc.subject.keyword Voicing assimilation
• dc.subject.keyword Phonetic learning
• dc.subject.keyword Electroencephalography
• dc.title A novel form of perceptual attunement: context-dependent perception of a native contrast in 14-month-old infants
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