LIND03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Speech Perception, Phonetics, Visual Space
2 Apr 2015
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As we age our ability to perceive contrasts non existant in our target /native language. Consonants discrimination is more categorical than vowel discrimination abilities. Has, heart rate, head turn, preferential looking paradigm. They ve heard their mother before, heartrate is faster for mothers story. Before birth they are tunning their auditory systems towards their language. Prosodic patterns - sounds are muffled in womb. French infants, were able to discriminate these 2 languages. Theyre able to discriminate prosodically different language, french and dutch is too close to discriminate. They are in fact sensitive, biggest jump for different pair. Difference between the speech and non speech categories very large for the different conditions. Only in speech conditions, l and r contrast. No apparently cp behaviour in non speech stimuli. Suggests that japanese adults lose sensetivity to l r and contrasts. Discrimination abilities to contrasts not present in infants ambient language. If infants show a sensitivity its difficult to explain influence of exposure.
