Young word learners fail to discriminate phonetic contrasts in certain situations, an
observation that has been used to support arguments that the nature of lexical …

In previous studies of phonological sensitivity, toddlers have failed to differentiate
mispronunciations of varying severity. We provide evidence of more sophisticated …

The growing literature concerning young word learners' attention to phonetic detail is a
welcome addition to the field of psycholinguistics. However, a review of the recent research …

The degree to which infants represent phonetic detail in words has been a source of
controversy in phonology and developmental psychology. One prominent hypothesis holds …

Young children often fail to distinguish words differing by a single phoneme. It has been
suggested that the phonological representations associated with early words are under …

In this study, we examined the influence of word-level phonological and lexical
characteristics on early phoneme awareness. Typically developing children, ages 61 to 78 …

Motivated by the idea that differences between adult and child language learners may stem
in part from initially minor differences (such as in phonetic perception) that cascade …

Neighborhood density influences adult performance on several word processing tasks.
Some studies show age-related effects of density on children's performance, reflecting a …

Purpose The authors examined speech perception deficits associated with individual
differences in language ability, contrasting auditory, phonological, or lexical accounts by …

In two experiments, 1.5-year-olds were taught novel words whose sound patterns were
phonologically similar to familiar words (novel neighbors) or were not (novel nonneighbors) …