Although children's knowledge of the sound patterns of words has been a focus of debate for
many years, little is known about the lexical representations very young children use in word …

Young children often fail to distinguish words differing by a single phoneme. It has been
suggested that the phonological representations associated with early words are under …

Eleven-month-olds can recognize a few auditorily presented familiar words in experimental
situations where no hints are given by the intonation, the situation, or the presence of …

Recent research has shown that infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of words when
tested using a preferential looking task. The results of these studies indicate that infants are …

What do novice word learners know about the sound of words? Word-learning tasks suggest
that young infants (14 months old) confuse similar-sounding words, whereas …

During the first year of life, infants' perception of speech becomes tuned to the phonology of
the native language, as revealed in laboratory discrimination and categorization tasks using …

Infants become selectively sensitive to phonological distinctions relevant to their native
language at an early age. One might expect that infants bring some of this phonological …

Although infants show remarkable sensitivity to linguistically relevant phonetic variation in
speech, young children sometimes appear not to make use of this sensitivity. Here …

The degree to which infants represent phonetic detail in words has been a source of
controversy in phonology and developmental psychology. One prominent hypothesis holds …

Although infants have the ability to discriminate a variety of speech contrasts, young children
cannot always use this ability in the service of spoken-word recognition. The research …