Abstract Language development during the 1st year of life is characterized by perceptual
attunement: following language-general perception, a decline in the perception of non …

This paper provides a selective overview of some of the research that has followed from the
publication of Werker and Tees (1984a)“Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for …

Young infants' remarkable ability to discriminate non-native phoneme contrasts played a
critical role in shaping the tenets of the perceptual narrowing hypothesis: early on, infants …

Forty years ago, Werker and Tees (1984) published a seminal finding which launched a
proliferation of new research on early language learning. Their startling discovery, that …

For several decades, developmental psychologists have emphasized the need for a
globalized developmental science versus one that is heavily grounded in North America and …