Lecture 6 - Part 1

Question 1

what did lecanuet et al find regarding hearing in the womb

Answer 1

babies have changes in heart rate in response to sound

Question 2

what did de casper & spence show regarding babies’ speech processing before birth

Answer 2

they can recognise a story that they have heard in the womb and actively process speech before birth

transnatal learning

Question 3

how do we know babies recognise stories and not voice?

Answer 3

in de casper and spence’s study, the change in sucking occurred when both the mother and a stranger read the story

Question 4

what was found in Christophe and morton’s study into telling languages apart

Answer 4

babies could tell the difference between english and japanese, but not english and dutch

babies use prosody to distinguish languages

Question 5

what does eimas et al’s high amplitude sucking paradigm show

Answer 5

when a baby hears a different phoneme after getting used to one on repeat they can tell the difference