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Do Infants Really Learn Phonetic Categories?

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Early changes in infants’ ability to perceive native and nonnative speech sound contrasts are typically attributed to their developing knowledge of phonetic categories. We critically examine this hypothesis and argue that there is little direct evidence of category knowledge in infancy. We then propose an alternative account in which infants’ perception changes because they are learning a perceptual space that is appropriate to represent speech, without yet carving up that space into phonetic categories. If correct, this new account has substantial implications for understanding early language development.
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Naomi Feldman, Sharon Goldwater, Emmanuel Dupoux, Thomas Schatz. Do Infants Really Learn Phonetic Categories?. Open Mind, 2021, 5, pp.113-131. ⟨10.1162/opmi_a_00046⟩. ⟨hal-03550830⟩
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