Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-25-2025

Keywords

child-directed speech, early infancy, language discrimination, speech perception

Disciplines

Developmental Psychology

Abstract

Much work in the study of early life speech perception centers on an infant’s ability to discriminate sounds. Studies rely on an infant’s reactions to spoken language, measured by various physical and biometric responses, as evidence of an infant’s ability to perceive distinct spoken sounds. Studies have identified a number of characteristics of human speech, termed cues, which infants have demonstrated they can recognize.

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