In most of the world, people have regular exposure to multiple accents. Therefore, learning
to quickly process accented speech is a prerequisite to successful communication. In this …

A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …

Adult processing of other-accented speech is fast, dependent on lexical access, and readily
generalizable to new words. But what does children's processing of other-accented speech …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

A thorough and fascinating exploration of the evolution of English'phonological structure,
this book traces the history of individual sounds and their representation through Old …

From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-
directed speech (IDS) compared with adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet IDS differs within …

The word segmentation paradigm originally designed by Jusczyk and Aslin (1995) has been
widely used to examine how infants from the age of 7.5 months can extract novel words from …

The ability to extract word forms from continuous speech is a prerequisite for constructing a
vocabulary and emerges in the first year of life. Electrophysiological (ERP) studies of speech …

Transitional Probability (TP) computations are regarded as a powerful learning mechanism
that is functional early in development and has been proposed as an initial bootstrapping …

Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only
recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more …