Results reveal that musicians exhibit enhanced neural differentiation of stop consonants early in life and with as little as a few years of training. Furthermore, the extent of subcortical stop consonant distinction correlates with auditory-specific cognitive abilities (i.e., auditory working memory ...
Spectral analysis of the frequency, amplitude, and formant characteristics of speech sounds has shown a universal pattern of organization of the basic sound repertoire and "language-specific?sounds in the process of babbling and prattle of infants of different ethnic groups. Possible mechanisms of the...
A child found to have severe to profound hearing loss may require a cochlear implant to access sounds in the speech frequency range. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This retrospective study compared the speech perception outcomes of children implanted at 2 years and below (C1) with those implanted later ...
There is a great deal of evidence that both human and chimpanzee infants communicative nonverbally, with gestures and sounds. There are a few studies that have shown cultural variation in the types of gestures used by human infants (e.g., Abels,2020; Kwon et al.,2018), and in the freque...
and parents work together, they can ensure children's speech, language and communication needs are recognised and supported so their learning is successful. Strong foundations are vital for their future education, and these f...
An early and essential task for infants is to make sense of the speech that they hear. Each language uses a unique set of about 40 phonemes, and infants must learn to partition varied speech sounds into these phonemic categories. Young infants are sensitive to subtle differences between all ...
Bilingual experience was calculated by subtracting age of L1 acquisition from age of L2 acquisition (in years); data close to zero represent bilinguals who acquired their L2 shortly after their L1 (‘early bilinguals’), data far from zero represent bilinguals who acquired their L2 later in life...
The old adage "if it sounds too good (or bad) to be true, it probably is" definitely applies to performance data. It is imperative that you validate data that you use in any important design decision. Validating Micro-Benchmark Data with a Debugger What does it mean to validate ...
we help students figure out which forms of music learning suit them best as individuals, through our knowledge of each unique child. We support them to find and follow their own musical path. Early Years music education ...
If these deaf children are born to hearing parents who do not expose them to a conventional sign language until adolescence, the children are effectively deprived of a usable language model during the early language learning years. They consequently present us with the opportunity to uncover biases...