Fast phonetic learning occurs already in 2-to-3-month old infants: an ERP study.

An important mechanism for learning speech sounds in the first year of life is ‘distributional learning’, i.e., learning by simply listening to the frequency distributions of the speech sounds in the environment. In the lab, fast distributional learning has been reported for infants in the second ha...

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Main Authors: Karin eWanrooij, Paul eBoersma, Titia eVan Zuijen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00077/full