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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262315869
Speech carries information about the structure and organization of language. Yet, speech is normally produced as a continuous stream without clearly demarcated boundaries between words. A fundamental problem for any language learner is to segment speech in a way that correctly identifies the words of the language. This is a crucial step toward building a lexicon and learning about the grammatical organization of the language. The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infants learn the organization of native language sound patterns. Peter Jusczyk examines the initial capacities that infants possess for discriminating and categorizing speech sounds and how these capacities evolve as infants gain experience with native language input. Considerable attention is paid to ways speech perception capacities develop so that listeners can recognize words in fluent speech. Jusczyk also looks at how infants' growing knowledge of native language sound patterns may facilitate the acquisition of other aspects of language organization and discusses the relationship between the learner's developing capacities for perceiving and producing speech. An appendix reviews the test procedures used to evaluate infant speech perception capacities.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262315869
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 24 July 2000
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/2447.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262315869