Lecture 6 - Part 2 Flashcards
1
Q
what ability do babies have that adults don’t
A
the potential to make any phonetic discrimination
2
Q
what was the method in werker & tees’ conditioned headturn paradigm
A
compared english and hindi babies
when there is a change in auditory stimulus, electric toy lights up
baby trained to look at toy whenever they hear a change
observer who cannot hear the targeted item then judges whether or not the infant heard it based on their actions
3
Q
why do infants stop perceiving phonetic differences in other languages
A
they become fine-tuned to the phonology, semantics and grammar of their native tongue
4
Q
what did kuhl et al find regarding the perceptual narrowing
A
experience of a foreign language can reverse the decline in non-native speech perception
