EAR-20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Voice-Onset Time, Categorical Perception, Speech Perception
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Adults who learned a second language at 1 to 3 years of age show the normal pattern of greater left-hemisphere activity in a test of grammatical knowledge (darker colors indicate greater activation). Those who learned the language later show increased right-hemisphere activity. Figuring out the sounds of one"s native language. Fetuses appear to be sensitive to prosody, the characteristic rhythm, tempo, cadence, melody, intonational patterns, and so forth with which a language is spoken. Variations in prosody are in large part responsible for why languages sound so different from one another, and why speakers of the same language can sound so distinctive. Beyond prosody, speech perception also involves distinguishing among the. Categorical perception of speech sounds: speech sounds that make a difference in a given language. Both adults and infants possess categorical perception of speech sounds (the perception of speech sounds as belonging to discrete categories). except that they differ in voice onset time (vot)
