Humans weave phonological patterns instinctively. We form phonological patterns at birth,
we spontaneously generate them de novo, and we impose phonological design on both our …

All languages instantiate a consonant/vowel contrast. This contrast has processing
consequences at different levels of spoken-language recognition throughout the lifespan. In …

Perceptual experiences in one modality are often dependent on activity from other sensory
modalities. These cross-modal correspondences are also evident in language. Adults and …

Recent research has shown that specific areas of the human brain are activated by speech
from the time of birth. However, it is currently unknown whether newborns' brains also …

By 12 months, children grasp that a phonetic change to a word can change its identity
(phonological distinctiveness). However, they must also grasp that some phonetic changes …

Everyone agrees that infants possess general mechanisms for learning about the world, but
the existence and operation of more specialized mechanisms is controversial. One …

Despite the fact that no invariant acoustic property corresponds to a single stop consonant
coupled with different vowels (eg,[da],[de], and [du]), adults effortlessly identify the same …

Five experiments compared preschool children's performance to that of adults and of non-
human animals on match to sample tasks involving 2-item or 16-item arrays that varied …

Consonants and vowels differ acoustically and articulatorily, but also functionally:
Consonants are more relevant for lexical processing, and vowels for prosodic/syntactic …

Three experiments investigated the representations that underlie 14-month-old infants' and
adults' success at match-to-sample (MTS) and non-match-to-sample (NMTS) tasks. In …