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Infants' speech perception skills show a dual change towards the end of the first year of life.
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Patterns of developmental change in phonetic perception are critical to theory development.
Many previous studies document a decline in nonnative phonetic perception between 6 and …

At the forefront of debates on language are new data demonstrating infants' early acquisition
of information about their native language. The data show that infants perceptually “map” …

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and
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The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
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This chapter focuses on one of the first steps in comprehending spoken language: How do
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