Language-specific phonetic perception in infants
Project description
This Literature Review must include the following 3 sections, and each section much use the relevant referenced papers I have mentioned below ( Note: there are 10 reference papers in total).
1. Investigating infant speech perception (focus on segment and superasegmental information)
Relevant paper: Houston (2011)
2. a. The universal listener hypothesis paints an incomplete picture of infants’ perceptual abilities, that some sound contrasts require language experience before they can be discriminated.
Relevant paper: Kuhl et al. (2006)
Narayan et al. (2010)
Introduction part of Krieger Dena (2012)
b. same for superasegmentals, that young infant can discriminate stress pattern only segmentally identical stimuli not multiple words stimuli were used.
Relevant paper:
Skoruppa, Cristià, Peperkamp, & Seidl (2011)
Skoruppa et al. (2009)
Skoruppa et al. (2013)
3. The perception of non-native lexical tone in English infants
Relevant paper: Mattock and Burnham (2006)
Mattock et al. (2008)
Yeung et al. (2013)
