SynthesisDevelopmental psychology2021
The development of infants' responses to mispronunciations: A meta-analysis.
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- Graded Sensitivity to Vowel Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words.Language and speech · 2026Article
- Phonological representation in English-learning infants' word comprehension.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Unveiling Distinctive Eye Tracking Markers to Distinguish Toddlers with High-Risk Autism as Indicated by ADOS Within an Elevated-Likelihood Toddler Sample.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Very Young Infants' Sensitivity to Consonant Mispronunciations in Word Recognition.CogSci ... Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society (U.S.). Conference · 2023Article
- A Protracted Developmental Trajectory for English-Learning Children's Detection of Consonant Mispronunciations in Newly Learned Words.Language acquisition · 2023Article
- Infants recognize words spoken through opaque masks but not through clear masks.Developmental science · 2021Article
- Improving the robustness of infant lexical processing speed measures.Behavior research methods · 2020Article
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- Specificity of phonological representations in U.S. English-speaking late talkers and typical talkers.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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Abstract
As they develop into mature speakers of their native language, infants must not only learn words but also the sounds that make up those words. To do so, they must strike a balance between accepting speaker-dependent variation (e.g., mood, voice, accent) but appropriately rejecting variation when it (potentially) changes a word's meaning (e.g., cat vs. hat). This meta-analysis focuses on studies investigating infants' ability to detect mispronunciations in familiar words, or mispronunciation sensitivity. Our goal was to evaluate the development of infants' phonological representations for familiar words as well as explore the role of experimental manipulations related to theoretical questions and of analysis choices. The results show that although infants are sensitive to mispronunciations, they still accept these altered forms as labels for target objects. Interestingly, this ability is not modulated by age or vocabulary size, suggesting that a mature understanding of native language phonology may be present in infants from an early age, possibly before the vocabulary explosion. These results support several theoretical assumptions made in the literature, such as sensitivity to mispronunciation size and position of the mispronunciation. We also shed light on the impact of data analysis choices that may lead to different conclusions regarding the development of infants' mispronunciation sensitivity. Our article concludes with recommendations for improved practice in testing infants' word and sentence processing online. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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