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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 97, Issue 22, Pages 11850-11857Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.22.11850
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- NICHD NIH HHS [HD37954, R01 HD037954] Funding Source: Medline
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At the forefront of debates on language are new data demonstrating infants' early acquisition of information about their native language. The data show that infants perceptually map critical aspects of ambient language in the first year of life before they can speak. Statistical properties of speech are picked up through exposure to ambient language. Moreover, linguistic experience alters infants' perception of speech, warping perception in the service of language. Infants' strategies are unexpected and unpredicted by historical views. A new theoretical position has emerged, and six postulates of this position are described.
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