Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants?
In a prior study infants habituated to an audio-only labial or alveolar, native English voiceless or non-native ejective stop, then saw silent videos of stops at each place [1]. 4-month-olds gazed more at congruent videos for native and non-native stops. 11-month-olds preferred congruence for native...
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| author | Best, C. Kroos, Christian Irwin, J. |
| author2 | Giampiero Salvi |
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| description | In a prior study infants habituated to an audio-only labial or alveolar, native English voiceless or non-native ejective stop, then saw silent videos of stops at each place [1]. 4-month-olds gazed more at congruent videos for native and non-native stops. 11-month-olds preferred congruence for native stops but incongruence for non-native ejectives, suggesting language experience biases but does not block detection of non-native A➝V speech relations. But as English adults perceive ejectives as deviant stops [2], we asked whether infants detect A➝V congruence in non-native phones adults hear as nonspeech, i.e., click consonants [3-6]. 4-month-olds preferred incongruency; 11-month-olds showed no preference. We posit that infants prefer A➝V congruency for phones heard as native-like speech; prefer incongruency for phones heard as speech that deviates from native segments; notice extreme deviance earlier (clicks: 4 mo; ejectives: 11 mo); and later treat very deviant phones as discriminable nonspeech sounds [3, 4] that are unrelated to visual speech. Results are at odds with existing AV models, but may be handled by a hybrid of Amodal Articulatory and Intersensory Narrowing views. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-416272023-01-27T05:52:11Z Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? Best, C. Kroos, Christian Irwin, J. Giampiero Salvi Jonas Beskow Olov Engwall Samer Al Moubayed click consonants cross-modal infant speech perception non-native contrasts articulatory phonology In a prior study infants habituated to an audio-only labial or alveolar, native English voiceless or non-native ejective stop, then saw silent videos of stops at each place [1]. 4-month-olds gazed more at congruent videos for native and non-native stops. 11-month-olds preferred congruence for native stops but incongruence for non-native ejectives, suggesting language experience biases but does not block detection of non-native A➝V speech relations. But as English adults perceive ejectives as deviant stops [2], we asked whether infants detect A➝V congruence in non-native phones adults hear as nonspeech, i.e., click consonants [3-6]. 4-month-olds preferred incongruency; 11-month-olds showed no preference. We posit that infants prefer A➝V congruency for phones heard as native-like speech; prefer incongruency for phones heard as speech that deviates from native segments; notice extreme deviance earlier (clicks: 4 mo; ejectives: 11 mo); and later treat very deviant phones as discriminable nonspeech sounds [3, 4] that are unrelated to visual speech. Results are at odds with existing AV models, but may be handled by a hybrid of Amodal Articulatory and Intersensory Narrowing views. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41627 ISCA restricted |
| spellingShingle | click consonants cross-modal infant speech perception non-native contrasts articulatory phonology Best, C. Kroos, Christian Irwin, J. Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| title | Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| title_full | Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| title_fullStr | Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| title_short | Do infants detect A→V articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| title_sort | do infants detect a→v articulator congruency for non-native click consonants? |
| topic | click consonants cross-modal infant speech perception non-native contrasts articulatory phonology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41627 |