Language/Culture/Mind/Brain
Language/Culture/Mind/Brain
Patricia K. Kuhl,Feng-Ming Tsao,2 Authors,B. Boer
2001 · DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb03478.x
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 44 Citations
TLDR
The data show that infants perceptually “map” critical aspects of ambient language in the first year of life before they can speak, and linguistic experience alters infants' perception of speech, warping perception in a way that enhances native‐language speech processing.