This review traces the structural maturation of the human auditory system, and compares the
timeline of anatomical development with cotemporaneous physiological and behavioral …

In this article, we provide a critical review of the literature on speech perception and
phonological processing in infancy, and in populations with different experiential histories as …

Understanding speech in our native tongue seems natural and effortless; listening to speech
in a nonnative language is a different experience. In this book, Anne Cutler argues that …

Aims To test the hypothesis that exposure to ambient language in the womb alters phonetic
perception shortly after birth. This two‐country study aimed to see whether neonates …

Four-day-old French and 2-month-old American infants distinguish utterances in their native
languages from those of another language. In contrast, neither group gave evidence of …

CONSTELLATION Page 1 STERN THE MO THERHOOD CONSTELLA TION THE
MOTHERHOOD CONSTELLATION A UNIFIED VIEW OF PARENT-INFANT …

Spoken languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic properties,
and psycholinguists have relied on this classification to account for infants' capacity to …

Three experiments investigated the ability of French newborns to discriminate between sets
of sentences in different foreign languages. The sentences were low-pass filtered to reduce …

A phrase consisting of a sequence of lexical words (Lex) 1 in morphosyntactic
representation (S-structure) is characteristically prosodized as a sequence of prosodic …

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining
developmental data with theory. How do children begin to use language? How does …