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Constructing adequate non‐speech analogues: what is special about speech anyway?

Constructing adequate non‐speech analogues: what is special about speech anyway? ) claim that human neonates have a (possibly innate) bias to listen to speech based on a preference for natural speech utterances over sine‐wave analogues. We argue that this bias more likely arises from the strikingly different saliency of voice melody in the two kinds of sounds, a bias that has already been shown to be learned pre‐natally. Possible avenues of research to address this crucial issue are proposed, based on a consideration of the distinctive acoustic properties of speech. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Developmental Science Wiley

Constructing adequate non‐speech analogues: what is special about speech anyway?

Developmental Science , Volume 10 (2) – Mar 1, 2007

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Wiley
Copyright
© 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN
1363-755X
eISSN
1467-7687
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00550.x
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17286839
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Abstract

) claim that human neonates have a (possibly innate) bias to listen to speech based on a preference for natural speech utterances over sine‐wave analogues. We argue that this bias more likely arises from the strikingly different saliency of voice melody in the two kinds of sounds, a bias that has already been shown to be learned pre‐natally. Possible avenues of research to address this crucial issue are proposed, based on a consideration of the distinctive acoustic properties of speech.

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Developmental ScienceWiley

Published: Mar 1, 2007

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