Influences on infant speech processing: Toward a new synthesis

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1999, Pages 509-535

  Werker, Janet F ^a   Tees, Richard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cross language; Development; Models; Perception; Word learning

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0032601503     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.509     Document Type: Article

References (106)

1. Aslin RN 1993. Segmentation of fluent speech into words: learning models and the role of maternal input. See de Boysson-Bardies et al 1993, pp. 305-16
2. Aslin RN, Pisoni DB, Hennessy BL, Perey AJ. 1981. Discrimination of voice onset time by human infants: new findings and implications for the effects of early experience. Child Dev. 52:1135-45
3. Best CT. 1995. Learning to perceive the sound patterns of English. In Advances in Infancy Research, ed. C Rovee-Collier, LP Lipsitt, pp. 217-304. Norwood, NJ: Ablex
4. Best CT, McRoberts GW, Sithole NM. 1988. Examination of the perceptual re-organization for speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English-speaking adults and infants. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 14:345-60
5. Bosch L, Sebastian-Galles N. 1997. Native-language recognition abilities in 4-month-old infants from monolingual and bilingual environments. Cognition 65:33-69
6. Chomsky N. 1975. Reflections on Language. New York: Random House
7. Christophe A, Dupoux E, Bertoncini J, Mehler J. 1994. Do infants perceive word boundaries? An empirical approach to the bootstrapping problem for lexical acquisition. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95:1570-80
8. Christophe A, Guasti T, Nespor M, Dupoux E, Van Ooyen B. 1997. Reflections on phonological bootstrapping: its role for lexical and syntactic acquisition. Lang. Cogn. Proc. 12:585-612
9. Cowan WM, Fawcett JW, O'Leary DDM, Stanfield BB. 1984. Regressive events in neurogenesis. Science 225:1258-65
10. Cutler A, Carter DM. 1987. The predominance of strong initial syllables in the English vocabulary. Comput. Speech Lang. 2:133-42
11. Cutler A, Norris D. 1988. The role of strong syllables in segmentation for lexical access. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 14:113-21
12. de Boysson-Bardies B, Halle P, Sagart L, Durand C. 1989. A cross-linguistic investigation of vowel formants in babbling. J. Child Lang. 16:1-17
13. de Boysson-Bardies B, Jusczyk P, McNeilage P, Morton J, eds. 1993. Developmental Neurocognition: Speech and Face Processing in the First Year of Life. Norwell, MA: Kluwer
14. de Boysson-Bardies B, Vihman MM. 1991. Adaptation to language: Evidence from babbling and first words in four languages. Language 67:297-319
15. Demuth K. 1996. The prosodic structure of early words. See Morgan & Demuth 1996, pp. 171-84
16. Desjardins R, Werker JF. 1996. Four month old infants are influenced by visible speech. Infant Behav. Dev. 19:762
17. Desjardins RN, Rogers J, Werker JF. 1997. An exploration of why preschoolers perform differently than do adults in audiovisual speech perception tasks. J. Exp. Child Psychol. 66:85-110
18. Diamond A, Werker JF, Lalonde CE. 1994. Toward understanding commonalties in the development of object search, detour navigation, categorization, and speech perception. See Fischer & Dawson 1994, pp. 380-426
19. Eilers R, Oller DK. 1976. The role of speech discriminations in developmental sound substitutions. J. Child Lang. 3:319-29
20. Eimas PD. 1974. Auditory and linguistic processing of cues for place of articulation by infants. Percept. Psychophysiol. 16:513-21
21. Eimas PD, Siqueland ER, Jusczyk PW, Vigorito J. 1971. Speech perception in infants. Science 171:303-6
22. Ferguson CA, Farwell CB. 1975. Words and sounds in early language acquisition. Language 51:419-39
23. Fischer KW, Dawson G, eds. 1994. Human Behavior and the Developing Brain. New York: Guilford
24. Fowler CA, Rosenblum LD. 1991. Perception of the phonetic gesture. In Modularity and the Motor Theory, ed. IG Mattingly, M Studdert-Kennedy, pp. 33-59. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum
25. Gerken LA. 1994. Child phonology: past research, present questions, future directions. In Handbook of Psycholinguistics, ed. MA Gernsbacher, pp. 781-820. New York: Academic
26. Gerken LA, Jusczyk PW, Mandel DR. 1994. When prosody fails to cue syntactic structure: nine-month-olds' sensitivity to phonological vs. syntactic phrases. Cognition 51:237-65
27. Gleitman L, Gleitman H, Landau B, Wanner E. 1988. Where the learning begins: initial representations for language learning. In The Cambridge Linguistic Survey, ed. F Newmeyer, 3:150-93. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press
28. Goodsit JV, Morgan JL, Kuhl PK. 1993. Perceptual strategies in prelingual speech segmentation. J. Child Lang. 20:229-52
29. Gottlieb G. 1991. Experiential canalization of behavioral development: theory. Dev. Psychol. 27:4-13
30. Green KP. 1998. The use of auditory and visual information in phonetic perception. In Speech Reading by Humans and Machines, ed. D Stork, ME Henneck. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. In press
31. Greenough WT. 1986. What's special about development? Thoughts on the bases of experience-sensitive plasticity. See Greenough & Juraska 1986, pp. 387-407
32. Greenough WT, Juraska JM. 1986. Developmental Neuropsychobiology. Orlando, FL: Academic
33. Grieser D, Kuhl PK. 1989. Categorization of speech by infants: support for speech-sound prototypes. Dev. Psychol. 25: 577-88
34. Halle PA, de Boysson-Bardies B. 1996. The format of representation of recognized words in infants' early receptive lexicon. Infant Behav. Dev. 19:463-81
35. Hebb DO. 1949. The Organization of Behavior. New York: Wiley
36. Hirsh-Pasek K, Kemler Nelson DG, Jusczyk PW, Cassidy KW, Druss B, Kennedy L. 1987. Clauses are perceptual for young infants. Cognition 26:269-86
37. Hockett, CA. 1954. Two models of grammatical description. Word 10:210-31
38. Jakobson R. 1941. Child Language, Aphasia and Phonological Universals. Transi. A Keller, 1968. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton
39. Jusczyk PW. 1997. The Discovery of Spoken Language. Cambridge MA: MIT Press
40. Jusczyk PW, Aslin RN. 1995. Infants' detection of the sound patterns of words in fluent speech. Cogn. Psychol. 29:1-23
41. Jusczyk PW, Bertoncini J. 1988. Viewing the development of speech perception as an innately guided learning process. Lang. Speech 31:217-35
42. Jusczyk PW, Cutler A, Redanz N. 1993. Preference for the predominant stress patterns of English words. Child Dev. 64:675-87
43. Jusczyk PW, Hohne EA. 1997. Infants' memory for spoken words. Science 277: 1984-86
44. Kelly M. 1992. Using sound to solve syntactic problems: the role of phonology in grammatical category assignments. Psychol. Rev. 9:349
45. Kent RD, Murray AD. 1982. Acoustic features of infant vocalic utterances at 3, 6, and 9 months. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72:353-65
46. Kolb B, Fantie B. 1989. Development of child's brain and behavior. In Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology, ed. CR Reynolds, E Fletcher-Janzen, pp. 17-39. New York: Plenum
47. Kuhl PK. 1979. Speech perception in early infancy: perceptual constancy for spectrally dissimilar vowel categories. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 66:1168-79
48. Kuhl PK. 1988. Auditory perception and the evolution of speech. Hum. Evol. 3(1-2): 19-43
49. Kuhl PK. 1993. Innate predispositions and the effects of experience in speech perception: the native language magnet theory. See de Boysson-Bardies et al 1993, pp. 259-74
50. Kuhl PK. 1998. Effects of language experience on speech perception. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 103(5):2931
51. Kuhl PK, Meltzoff AN. 1982. The bimodal perception of speech in infancy. Science 218:1138-41
52. Kuhl PK, Williams KA, Lacerda F, Stevens KN, Lindblom B. 1992. Linguistic experiences alters phonetic perception in infants by 6 months of age. Science 255:606-8
53. Lalonde C, Werker JF. 1995. Cognitive influences on cross-language speech perception in infancy. Infant Behav. Dev. 18:459-76
54. Levitt AG, Utman J, Aydelott J. 1992. From babbling towards the systems of English and French: a longitudinal two-case study. J. Child Lang. 19:19-49
55. Liberman AM, Mattingly IG. 1985. The motor theory of speech perception revised. Cognition 21:1-36
56. Lindblom B. 1992. Phonological units as adaptive emergents of lexical development. In Phonological Development: Models, Research, Implications, ed. CA Ferguson, L Menn, C Stoel Gammon, pp. 131-63. Timonium, MD: York
57. Locke JL. 1983. Phonological Acquisition and Change. New York: Academic
58. MacKain KS, Best CT, Strange W. 1981. Categorical perception of English /r/ and /1/ by Japanese bilinguals. Appl. Psycholinguist. 2:369-90
59. MacWhinney B. 1998. Models of the emergence of language. Annu. Rev. Psychol. 49: 199-227
60. Mandel DR, Jusczyk PW, Pisoni DB. 1995. Infants' recognition of the sound patterns of their own names. Psychol. Sci. 6:315-18
61. Massaro DW, Cohen MM, Gesi A, Heredia R, Tsuzaki M. 1993. Bimodal speech perception: an examination across languages. J. Phon. 21:445-78
62. Mazuka R. 1996. Can a grammatical parameter be set before the first word? Prosodic contributions to early setting of a grammatical parameter. See Morgan & Demuth 1996, pp. 313-30
63. McGurk H, MacDonald J. 1976. Hearing lips and seeing voices. Nature 264:746-48
64. Mehler J, Christophe A. 1994. Language in the infant's mind. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. B 346:13-20
65. Mehler J, Juczyk PW, Lambertz G, Halsted N, Bertoncini J, et al. 1988. A precursor of language acquisition in young infants. Cognition 29:144-78
66. Menyuk P, Menn L, Silber R. 1979. Early strategies for the perception and production of words and sounds. In Studies in Language "Acquisition," ed. P Fletcher, M Garman, pp. 198-222. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Univ. Press
67. Mills DL, Coffey-Corina SA, Neville HJ. 1994. Variability in cerebral organization during primary language acquisition. See Fischer & Dawson 1994, pp. 427-55
68. Moon C, Cooper RP, Fifer WP. 1993. Two-day old infants prefer native language. Infant Behav. Dev. 16:495-500
69. Morgan JL, Demuth K, eds. 1996. Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping from Speech to Grammer in Early Acquisition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum
70. Morgan JL, Saffran JR. 1995. Emerging integration of sequential and suprasegmental information in prelingual speech segmentation. Child Dev. 66:911-36
71. Nazzi T, Bertoncini J, Mehler J. 1998. Language discrimination by newborns: towards an understanding of the role of rhythm. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. In press
72. Nespor M, Vogel I. 1986. Prosodic Phonology. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Foris
73. Ojemann GA. 1991. Cortical organization of language. J. Neurosci. 11:2281-87
74. Oller DK. 1980. The emergence of speech sounds in infancy. In Child Phonology, ed. GH Yeni-Komshian, JF Kavanagh, CA Ferguson, pp. 92-112. New York: Academic
75. Patterson ML, Werker JF. 1998. Matching phonetic information in lips and voice by 40-month-old infants. Poster presented at 11th Bienn. Int. Conf. Infant Stud., Atlanta, GA
76. Pegg JE, Werker JF. 1997. Adult and infant perception of two English phones. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 102:3742-53
77. Pisoni DB, Aslin RN, Perey AJ, Hennessy BL. 1982. Some effects of laboratory training on identification and discrimination of voicing contrasts in stop consonants. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 8: 297-314
78. Polka L, Bohn O-S. 1996. A cross-language comparison of vowel perception in English-learning and German-learning infants. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 100:577-92
79. Polka L, Werker JF. 1994. Developmental changes in perception of non-native vowel contrasts. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 20:421-35
80. Rosenblum LD, Schmuckler MA, Johnson JA. 1997. The McGurk effect in infants. Percept. Psychophysiol. 59:347-57
81. Saffran JR, Aslin RN, Newport EL. 1996. Statistical learning by 8-month old infants. Science 274:1926-28
82. Sams M, Aulanko R, Hamalainen M, Mari R, Lounsamaa OV. 1991. Seeing speech: visual information from lip movements modifies activity in the human auditory cortex. Neurosci. Lett. 127:141-45
83. Shi R, Morgan JL, Allopenna P. 1998a. Phonological and acoustic bases for earliest grammatical category assignment. A cross-linguistic persepctive. J. Child Lang. 25:169-201
84. Shi R, Werker JF, Morgan JL. 1998b. Young infants' perception of lexical and functional categories. Poster presented at 11th Bienn. Int. Conf. Infant Stud., Atlanta, GA
85. Siva N, Stevens EB, Kuhl PK, Meltzoff AN. 1995. A comparison between cerebral-palsied and normal adults in the perceptions of auditory-visual illusions. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98:2983
86. Stager CL, Werker JF. 1997. Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word learning tasks. Nature 388: 381-82
87. Strange W, Jenkins JJ. 1978. Role of linguistic experience in the perception of speech. In Perception and Experience, ed. RD Walk, HL Pick, pp. 125-69. New York: Plenum
88. Streeter LA. 1976. Language perception of 2-month old infants shows effects of both innate mechanisms and experience. Nature 259:39-41
89. Tees RC. 1986. Experience and visual development: behavioral evidence. See Greenough & Juraska 1986, pp. 317-61
90. Tees RC, Werker JF. 1984. Perceptual flexibility: maintenance or recovery of the ability to discriminate non-native speech sounds. Can. J. Psychol. 38:579-90
91. Trehub SE. 1973. Infants' sensitivity to vowel and tonal contrasts. Dev. Psychol. 9:91-96
92. Trehub SE. 1976. The discrimination of foreign speech contrasts by infants and adults. Child Dev. 47:466-72
93. Vihman MM, Miller R. 1988. Words and babble at the threshold of language acquisition. In The Emergent Lexicon, ed. MD Smith, JL Locke, pp. 151-83. New York: Academic
94. Werker JF. 1995. Exploring developmental changes in cross-language speech perception. In An Invitation to Cognitive Science. Part I: Language, ed. L Gleitman, M Liberman, pp. 87-106. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
95. Werker JF, Cohen LB, Lloyd V, Stager C, Cassosola M. 1998a. Acquisition of word-object associations by 14-month-old infants. Dev. Psychol. In press
96. Werker JF, Gilbert JHV, Humphrey K, Tees RC. 1981. Developmental aspects of cross-language speech perception. Child Dev. 52:349-55
97. Werker JF, Lalonde CE. 1988. Cross-language speech perception: initial capabilities and developmental change. Dev. Psychol. 24: 672-83
98. Werker JF, McGurk HE, Frost P. 1992. La langue et les lévres: cross-language influences on bimodal speech perception. Can. J. Psychol. 46:551-68
99. Werker JF, Shi R, Desjardins R, Pegg JE, Polka L, et al. 1998b. Three methods for testing infant speech perception. In Perceptual Development: Visual, Auditory, and Speech Perception in Infancy, ed. AM Slater. London: Univ. Coll. London Press. In press
100. Werker JF, Stager C. 1998. Developmental changes in infant speech perception and early word learning. Is there a link? In Papers in Laboratory Phonology, ed. M Broe, J Peirre-Humbert. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press. In press
101. Werker JF, Tees RC. 1983. Developmental changes across childhood in the perception of non-native speech sounds. Can. J. Psychol 37(2):278-86
102. Werker JF, Tees RC. 1984a. Cross-language speech perception: evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life. Infant Behav. Dev. 7:49-63
103. Werker JF, Tees RC. 1984b. Phonemic and phonetic factors in adult cross-language speech perception. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 75: 1866-78
104. Werker JF, Tees RC. 1992. The organization and reorganization of human speech perception. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 15:377-402
105. Wexler K, Culicover P. 1980. Formal Principles of Language Acquisition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
106. Whalen DH, Levitt A, Wang Q. 1991. International differences the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants. J. Child Lang. 18:501-6