Perceptual development of consonants and vowels in bilingual infants

• Main Author: Thew, Cami Wei Ling
• Other Authors: Ng Bee Chin
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138335
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Perceptual attunement (PA) and perceptual narrowing (PN) are two critical processes in an infant’s early perceptual development. PA refers to the process of increasing sensitivity to native speech sounds and PN refers to the process of decreasing sensitivity to non-native speech sounds. A majority o...