Infants’ Sensitivity to Lexical Tone and Word Stress in Their First Year: A Thai and English Cross-Language Study

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M. Kalashnikova, C. Onsuwan, D. Burnham
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ABSTRACT Non-tone language infants’ native language recognition is based first on supra-segmental then segmental cues, but this trajectory is unknown for tone-language infants. This study investigated non-tone (English) and tone (Thai) language 6- to 10-month-old infants’ preference for English vs. Thai one-syllable words (containing segmental and tone cues) and two-syllable words (additionally containing stress cues). A preference for their native one-syllable words was observed in each of the two groups of infants, but this was not the case for two-syllable words where Thai-learning infants showed no native-language preference. These findings indicate that as early as six months of age, infants acquiring tone- and non-tone languages identify their native language by relying solely on lexical tone cues, but tone language infants no longer show successful identification of their native language when two pitch-based cues co-occur in the signal.
一岁婴儿对词汇语调和单词重音的敏感性:泰英跨语言研究
非声调语言婴儿的母语识别首先是基于超音段线索,然后是音段线索,但这种轨迹对于声调语言婴儿来说是未知的。本研究调查了6 ~ 10个月大婴儿对英语和泰语单音节词(包含音段和声调线索)和双音节词(额外包含重音线索)的偏好。两组婴儿对母语单音节单词的偏好都被观察到,但对于双音节单词则不是这样,学习泰语的婴儿没有表现出母语偏好。这些发现表明,早在6个月大的时候,习得声调语言和非声调语言的婴儿就能仅仅依靠词汇语调线索来识别母语,但当两个基于音调的线索同时出现在信号中时,声调语言婴儿就不再能成功地识别母语。
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