Native and non-native vowel discrimination in 6-month-old Norwegian infants

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infant Behavior & Development Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI:10.1016/j.infbeh.2024.101992

Audun Rosslund , Julien Mayor , Alejandrina Cristia , Natalia Kartushina

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Abstract

In the current preregistered study, we tested n = 67 6-month-old Norwegian infants’ discrimination of a native vowel contrast /y-i/ and a non-native (British) vowel contrast /ʌ-æ/ in an eye-tracking habituation paradigm. Our results showed that, on a group level, infants did not discriminate either contrast. Yet, exploratory analyses revealed a negative association between infants’ performance in each experiment, that is, better discrimination of the native contrast was associated with worse discrimination of the non-native contrast. Potentially, infants in this study might have been on the cusp of perceptual reorganisation towards their native language.

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6 个月大挪威婴儿的母语和非母语元音辨别能力

在本项预先登记的研究中，我们通过眼动跟踪习惯化范例测试了n = 67名6个月大的挪威婴儿对母语元音对比/y-i/和非母语（英国）元音对比/ʌ-æ/的辨别能力。我们的结果表明，在群体水平上，婴儿对这两种对比都没有分辨能力。然而，探索性分析表明，婴儿在每个实验中的表现之间存在负相关，即对母语对比的较好辨别能力与对非母语对比的较差辨别能力相关。在这项研究中，婴儿可能正处于对母语进行知觉重组的边缘。

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Infant Behavior & Development PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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4.10

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4.80%

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期刊介绍： Infant Behavior & Development publishes empirical (fundamental and clinical), theoretical, methodological and review papers. Brief reports dealing with behavioral development during infancy (up to 3 years) will also be considered. Papers of an inter- and multidisciplinary nature, for example neuroscience, non-linear dynamics and modelling approaches, are particularly encouraged. Areas covered by the journal include cognitive development, emotional development, perception, perception-action coupling, motor development and socialisation.