There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Linguistic experience affects phonetic perception. However, the critical period during which experience affects perception and the mechanism responsible for these effects are unknown. This study of 6-month-old infants from two countries, the United States and Sweden, shows that exposure to a specific language in the first half year of life alters infants' phonetic perception.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

PubMed ID:: 1736364

DOI:: 10.1126/science.1736364

ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: Analysis of Variance,Humans,Infant,Language,Phonation,Speech,Sweden,United States

Data availability:

ScienceOpen disciplines: Chemistry

Keywords: Analysis of Variance, Humans, Infant, Language, Phonation, Speech, Sweden, United States

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Smart Citations

Citing PublicationsSupportingMentioningContrasting

View Citations

See how this article has been cited at scite.ai

scite shows how a scientific paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation, a classification describing whether it supports, mentions, or contrasts the cited claim, and a label indicating in which section the citation was made.