Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the existing data on the perception of speech by infants, emphasizing the particular phonetic contrasts that the infant is capable of distinguishing, the nature of the perceptual process, and the role of specific, receptive linguistic experience on perception. A theory of speech perception, namely, a feature detector model is discussed along with how the tuning of these mechanisms and similar mechanisms for visual perception is influenced by both biological constraints and experience with the environment. Finally, the chapter demonstrates that speech, in its perception and development, shares a number of characteristics with the perception and development of several nonhuman communication systems.
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