Infants' learning of novel segments in modulated by prosody

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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Infants' learning of novel segments in modulated by prosody
Original language description
Young infants recognize atypical realisations of native-language speech. Later they learn words better from native-accented talkers. However, 6-month-olds preferentially listen to unfamiliar speech. We tested whether the learning of new vowels matches 6-month-olds' listening preferences, being more effective from nonnative-accented speech. We exposed Czech six-month-olds to delexicalised utterances with consonants replaced by [f] and vowels by 405 tokens sampled from a bimodal [ɛ]-[æ] distribution, a contrast absent from Czech, and with either native or atypical rhythm. Discrimination of [ɛ]-[æ] was then tested in an alternating/non-alternating paradigm. Longer first-look duration to non-alternating than to alternating trials - indicating a learning effect - was found in infants familiarised with the novel contrast in atypical rhythm; such effect was not detected after familiarisation with native rhythm. Six-month-olds thus more effectively exploit distributional information about novel vowels from non-native rhythm, which matches their previously reported preferences for listening to novel over familiar accents.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
ISBN
978-80-908114-2-3
ISSN
2412-0669
e-ISSN
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Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
2358-2362
Publisher name
FF UK/Guarant International
Place of publication
Praha
Event location
Praha
Event date
Aug 7, 2023
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
001578006400471

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