Language Development: Learning the Sounds of Language
© 2015
Contributors
- Naja Ferjan Ramirez, PhD
- Jane Hu, PhD
- Lindsay Klarman, MNPL, NIC-A
- Jennifer Larson, PhD
- Sarah Roseberry Lytle, PhD
- Lily Shafer
- Elizabeth Zack, PhD
- Patricia K. Kuhl, PhD
- Andrew N. Meltzoff, PhD
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- Categorization
- grouping together the same sounds, and distinguishing them from other sounds
- Phoneme
- the smallest unit of speech (a sound)
- Sensitive period
- a time in development when the brain is especially ready to learn a skill
- Speech perception
- listening to speech
- Speech production
- speaking
- Statistical learning
- computing how likely it is that certain events (in this case sounds or syllables) occur compared to others