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Infant Perception of Sounds Werker and Tees (1984) Languages/Sounds: • English bilabial/alveolar ‘ba’ vs. ’da’ • Hindi retroflex/dental ‘ta’ vs. ‘ta’, such as in: retroflex: dental: • Thompson velar/uvular ‘ki’ / ‘qi’ (as heard in video) http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/I PAlab.h...

Infant Perception of Sounds Werker and Tees (1984) Languages/Sounds: • English bilabial/alveolar ‘ba’ vs. ’da’ • Hindi retroflex/dental ‘ta’ vs. ‘ta’, such as in: retroflex: dental: • Thompson velar/uvular ‘ki’ / ‘qi’ (as heard in video) http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/charts/IPAlab/I PAlab.htm Infant Perception of Sounds Werker and Tees (1984) Results: Infant Perception of Sounds Children are born with the ability to hear the difference between all human speech sounds without training Children largely lose this ability within the first year of life, and begin to specialize in the one language spoken around them. Whether or not slightly older children can be trained to hear these distinctions again is another question… Infant Perception of Sounds New research: Dr. Patricia Kuhl https://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_geniu s_of_babies Note: Although found around the world, “motherese” (or baby-talk, is not universal in all speech communities)