Infants learn language with remarkable speed. By the end of their second year they speak in
sentences with an'accent'typical of a native speaker. How does an individual acquire a …

Like its predecessor, the revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) focuses on the learning of
L2 vowels and consonants (or “sounds,” for short) across the life-span. To define the context …

Phonological development is sometimes seen as a process of learning sounds, or forming
phonological categories, and then combining sounds to build words, with the evidence …

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels:
languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; …

Abstract Language experience systematically constrains perception of speech contrasts that
deviate phonologically and/or phonetically from those of the listener's native language …

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” …

Classic non-native speech perception findings suggested that adults have difficulty
discriminating segmental distinctions that are not employed contrastively in their own …

We report four experiments investigating the perception of photographic quality continua of
interpolated (morphed') facial expressions derived from prototypes of the 6 emotions in the …

It is well attested that we perceive speech through the filter of our native language: a classic
example is that of Japanese listeners who cannot discriminate between the …

Over the course of the first year of life, infants develop from being generalized listeners,
capable of discriminating both native and non‐native speech contrasts, into specialized …