Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12613" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/infa.12613</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12613" target="_blank" >10.1111/infa.12613</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Infants' reliance on rhythm to distinguish languages: A critical review
Original language description
This article reviews empirical methods and findings on early language discrimination, questioning rhythm-class based hypotheses on language discrimination in infancy, as well as the assumption that early language discrimination is driven primarily (or solely) by temporal prosodic cues. The present work argues that within-rhythm class discrimination which – according to the rhythmic hypothesis – is not applicable very early in life, has not been sufficiently tested with infants under 4 months of age, that familiarity with a language is not a prerequisite for its discrimination from another rhythmically similar language, and that the temporal rhythm properties may not universally be the primary cues to language discrimination. Although rhythm taxonomy is now by many understood as outdated, some developmental literature still draws on the assumption that rhythm classification determines infants' language discrimination, other studies consider rhythm along a continuous scale and only a few account for cues to language discrimination other than temporal ones. It is proposed that studies on early language discrimination systematically test the contribution of other than temporal rhythm cues, similarly to recent work on multidimensional psychoacoustic salience in the acquisition of segmental categories.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Infancy
ISSN
1525-0008
e-ISSN
1532-7078
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
35
Pages from-to
842-876
UT code for WoS article
001303077200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85202676647