Two-day-olds prefer their native language

Moon, Christine; Cooper, Robin Panneton; Fifer, William P.

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“…Moreover, infants still display such a differential reaction when the utterances are filtered to ensure that most of the segmental information is removed and only the prosodic information remains available. Moon, Cooper, and Fifer (1993) report similar results. Thus, infants individuate prosodic properties of their native language before they begin to specify its segmental aspects.…”

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A Destressing “Deafness” in French?

Dupoux

Pallier

Sebastian

et al. 1997

Journal of Memory and Language

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Spanish but not French uses accent to contrast between words (e.g., tópo vs topó). Two populations of subjects were tested on the same materials to determine whether this difference has an impact on the perceptual capacities of listeners. In Experiment 1, using an ABX paradigm, we found that French subjects had significantly more difficulties than Spanish subjects to perform an ABX classification task based on accent. In Experiment 2, we found that Spanish subjects were unable to ignore irrelevant differences in accent in a phoneme-based ABX task, whereas French subjects had no difficulty at all. In Experiment 3, we replicated the basic French finding, and found that Spanish subjects benefited from redundant accent information even when phonemic information alone was sufficient to perform the task. In our final experiment, we showed that French subjects can be made to respond to the acoustic correlates of accent; therefore their difficulty in Experiment 1 seem to be located at the level of short-term memory. The implications of these findings for language-specific processing and acquisition are discussed.The native speaker's difficulties with some nonnative segmental contrasts is well documented, (e.g., Polka & Werker, 1994). Much less is known about the way in which rhythmical and structural properties of the native language affect encoding of foreign words. This study reports four experiments to assess the claim that nonsegmental properties of the native language greatly affect the way in which unfamiliar items are processed and represented.Learning a language requires, inter alia, acquiring knowledge of the language's sound pattern. Psycholinguists have mostly assumed that learning the sound pattern of a native language essentially involves learning the segments of the language. This assumption is evident in books and articles on the subject, e.g., Carroll (1960) for an early formulation of this view and Miller and Jusczyk (1990) for a later one. There is no question that segments are an essential ingredient of the sound pattern of language though many other properties of speech are also important. Foreign accents reflect segmental difficulties but also supra-segmental ones. For instance, informal observations suggest that French speakers who acThis research was supported by grants from the Human Frontier Science Program, the Human Capital program, the FrancoSpanish Exchange Program for 1993-1995, the Fyssen Foundation and DRET. We thank Jennifer Glos, Xavier Hardy and Olivier Crouzet for help in stimulus construction and data gathering. We thank Stanislas Dehaene and Brit van Ooijen for very useful comments on earlier versions of this paper. Mailing address: Emmanuel Dupoux, 54 Bd Raspail, F-75270 Paris Cedex 06, France. http://www.ehess.fr/centres/lscp/persons/dupoux quire English after puberty produce segments that are not prototypical of English, and prosodic output is usually deficient as well. It is not uncommon to hear speakers of French who fail to reduce vowels or who make the wrong vowel prominent. ...

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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A Destressing “Deafness” in French?

Dupoux

Pallier

Sebastian

et al. 1997

Journal of Memory and Language

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374

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“…Consistent with the face interest literature, newborn infants exhibit a preference for listening to their mother's voice, rather than a female stranger's voice (DeCasper & Fifer, 1980), and for listening to speech in their mother's language (Moon, Cooper & Fifer, 1993).…”

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Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Taylor

Slade

Herbert

2014

Infant Behavior and Development

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Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces. Early infant interest in their mother's face is driven by an experience based face processing system, and is associated with maternal psychological health, even within a non clinical community sample. The present study examined the role of the voice in eliciting infants' interest in mother and stranger faces and in the association between infant face interest and maternal psychological health.Infants aged 3.5-months were shown photographs of their mother's and a stranger's face paired with an audio recording of their mother's and a stranger's voice that was either matched (e.g., mother's face and voice) or mismatched (e.g., mother's face and stranger's voice). Infants spent more time attending to the stranger's matched face and voice than the mother's matched face and voice and the mismatched faces and voices. Thus, infants demonstrated an earlier preference for a stranger's face when given voice information than when the face is presented alone. In the present sample, maternal psychological health varied with 56.7% of mothers reporting mild mood symptoms (depression, anxiety or stress response to childbirth). Infants of mothers with significant mild maternal mood symptoms looked longer at the faces and voices compared to infants of mothers who did not report mild maternal mood symptoms. In sum, infants' experience based face processing system is sensitive to their mothers' maternal psychological health and the multimodal nature of faces.

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“…Number of auditory skills are present in infants born with normal hearing and these are crucial to development of language; many of these proficiencies appear to be present as early as birth or beforehand [12][13][14][15]. Children with severe to profound sensorineural hearing loss do not have the benefit of early exposure to spoken language due to limited linguistic input and therefore lag behind in development of spoken language [16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”

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Pediatric Cochlear Implantation—Why the Delay

Kothari

Keshree

Bhatnagar³

2015

Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg

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The aim of the study was to evaluate the factors that act as barriers and delay the process of cochlear implantation in children with congenital profound sensorineural hearing loss. This is a cross sectional observational study in which 154 children with profound sensorineural deafness attending ENT outdoor from Jan 2013 to June 2014 at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical College and PG Institute, Indore, were included in the study. Information was taken from the parents of the candidates regarding the reasons for the delay in reporting, the delay in intervention and a detailed history was also taken to evaluate the possible reason for the hearing loss with the help of open ended questions. The most common cause for the delay in reporting was lack of information about the availability of technique and procedure for cochlear implant. Financial constrain was the most common cause for the delay in getting the cochlear implant surgery.

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Two-day-olds prefer their native language

Cited by 594 publications

References 7 publications

A Destressing “Deafness” in French?

A Destressing “Deafness” in French?

Infant face interest is associated with voice information and maternal psychological health

Pediatric Cochlear Implantation—Why the Delay

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