The periodicity bias  

Oleh:

Cutler, Anne ; Mehler, J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 21 no. 1/2 (Jan. 1993), page 103 - 108.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/21 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The evidence presented in the target articles suggests that infants' phonetic development is driven by the acquisition of words as holistic units; and that segmental representations, previously considered to become language-specific only late in the first year of life, actually arise throughout this first year, with language-specific representations of vowels arising earlier than of consonants. We propose that these circumstances are unified by a bias towards attention to periodic sounds, present at birth. This equips the child to exploit linguistic rhythm to achieve initial segmentation of continuous speech signals to extract word units; the use of linguistic rhythm for segmentation is still present in adult processing. It also has the effect of making vowels achieve effective prototypical representations earlier than consonants.

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