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@article{citeulike:5087134, abstract = {The development of speech perception during the 1st year reflects increasing attunement to native language features, but the mechanisms underlying this development are not completely understood. One previous study linked reductions in nonnative speech discrimination to performance on nonlinguistic tasks, whereas other studies have shown associations between speech perception and vocabulary growth. The present study examined relationships among these abilities in 11-month-old infants using a conditioned head-turn test of native and nonnative speech sound discrimination, nonlinguistic object-retrieval tasks requiring attention and inhibitory control, and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (L. Fenson et al., 1993). Native speech discrimination was positively linked to receptive vocabulary size but not to the cognitive control tasks, whereas nonnative speech discrimination was negatively linked to cognitive control scores but not to vocabulary size. Speech discrimination, vocabulary size, and cognitive control scores were not associated with more general cognitive measures. These results suggest specific relationships between domain-general inhibitory control processes and the ability to ignore variation in speech that is irrelevant to the native language and between the development of native language speech perception and vocabulary.}, author = {Conboy, B. T. and Sommerville, J. A. and Kuhl, P. K.}, citeulike-article-id = {5087134}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0012975}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18793082}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18793082}, doi = {10.1037/a0012975}, issn = {0012-1649}, journal = {Developmental psychology}, keywords = {cognitive\_control, discrimination, domain\_specificity, infants, interesting, nonnative\_speech, speech, speech\_perception, vocabulary}, month = {September}, number = {5}, pages = {1505--1512}, posted-at = {2009-07-07 15:34:56}, priority = {3}, title = {Cognitive control factors in speech perception at 11 months.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0012975}, volume = {44}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5087134 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5087134 N2 - The development of speech perception during the 1st year reflects increasing attunement to native language features, but the mechanisms underlying this development are not completely understood. One previous study linked reductions in nonnative speech discrimination to performance on nonlinguistic tasks, whereas other studies have shown associations between speech perception and vocabulary growth. The present study examined relationships among these abilities in 11-month-old infants using a conditioned head-turn test of native and nonnative speech sound discrimination, nonlinguistic object-retrieval tasks requiring attention and inhibitory control, and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (L. Fenson et al., 1993). Native speech discrimination was positively linked to receptive vocabulary size but not to the cognitive control tasks, whereas nonnative speech discrimination was negatively linked to cognitive control scores but not to vocabulary size. Speech discrimination, vocabulary size, and cognitive control scores were not associated with more general cognitive measures. These results suggest specific relationships between domain-general inhibitory control processes and the ability to ignore variation in speech that is irrelevant to the native language and between the development of native language speech perception and vocabulary. IS - 5 JF - Developmental psychology SN - 0012-1649 EP - 1512 TI - Cognitive control factors in speech perception at 11 months. VL - 44 SP - 1505 KW - cognitive_control KW - discrimination KW - domain_specificity KW - infants KW - interesting KW - nonnative_speech KW - speech KW - speech_perception KW - vocabulary AU - Conboy, BT AU - Sommerville, JA AU - Kuhl, PK PY - 2008/09// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0012975 ER -