Influence of raciolinguistic expectations on phoneme discrimination in Spanish-English bilinguals

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 2760-2761
Author(s):  
Jennifer Dibbern ◽  
Annette D'Onofrio
Keyword(s):  
Phoneme Discrimination

scholarly journals The Development of a Paediatric Phoneme Discrimination Test for Arabic Phonemic Contrasts

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-166
Author(s):  
Hanin Rayes ◽  
Ghada Al-Malky ◽  
Deborah Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Closed Set ◽  
Retest Reliability ◽  
Response Options ◽  
Phoneme Discrimination ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Hearing Children ◽  
Test Retest Reliability ◽  
Development And Validation ◽  
Arabic Speaking

Objective: The aim of this project was to develop the Arabic CAPT (A-CAPT), a Standard Arabic version of the CHEAR auditory perception test (CAPT) that assesses consonant perception ability in children. Method: This closed-set test was evaluated with normal-hearing children aged 5 to 11 years. Development and validation of the speech materials were accomplished in two experimental phases. Twenty-six children participated in phase I, where the test materials were piloted to ensure that the selected words were age appropriate and that the form of Arabic used was familiar to the children. Sixteen children participated in phase II where test–retest reliability, age effects, and critical differences were measured. A computerized implementation was used to present stimuli and collect responses. Children selected one of four response options displayed on a screen for each trial. Results: Two lists of 32 words were developed with two levels of difficulty, easy and hard. Assessment of test–retest reliability for the final version of the lists showed a strong agreement. A within-subject ANOVA showed no significant difference between test and retest sessions. Performance improved with increasing age. Critical difference values were similar to the British English version of the CAPT. Conclusions: The A-CAPT is an appropriate speech perception test for assessing Arabic-speaking children as young as 5 years old. This test can reliably assess consonant perception ability and monitor changes over time or after an intervention.

scholarly journals Poor neural and perceptual phoneme discrimination during acoustic variation in dyslexia

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Virtala ◽  
S. Talola ◽  
E. Partanen ◽  
T. Kujala
Keyword(s):  
Phoneme Discrimination ◽  
Acoustic Variation

scholarly journals Common Neural Basis for Phoneme Processing in Infants and Adults

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1375-1387 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dehaene-Lambertz ◽  
T. Gliga
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Neural Substrates ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Neural Structure ◽  
Implicit Instruction ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Phoneme Discrimination ◽  
Phoneme Perception ◽  
Degree Of Similarity

Investigating the degree of similarity between infants' and adults' representation of speech is critical to our understanding of infants' ability to acquire language. Phoneme perception plays a crucial role in language processing, and numerous behavioral studies have demonstrated similar capacities in infants and adults, but are these subserved by the same neural substrates or networks? In this article, we review event-related potential (ERP) results obtained in infants during phoneme discrimination tasks and compare them to results from the adult literature. The striking similarities observed both in behavior and ERPs between initial and mature stages suggest a continuity in processing and neural structure. We argue that infants have access at the beginning of life to phonemic representations, which are modified without training or implicit instruction, but by the statistical distributions of speech input in order to converge to the native phonemic categories.

Children’s and adults’ initial phonological acquisition of a foreign language

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 374-401
Author(s):  
Romana Kopečková ◽  
Christine Dimroth ◽  
Ulrike Gut
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Discrimination Task ◽  
Phonological Acquisition ◽  
Phoneme Discrimination ◽  
Sentence Imitation ◽  
German Children ◽  
L2 Perception

Abstract This study compared children’s and adults’ L2 perception and production in the first hours of exposure to a foreign language. A total of 10 German children and 19 German adults performed a phoneme discrimination task and a sentence imitation task in Polish at two testing times. Exposed to a comparable input, the adult learners were found to perceive Polish sibilant contrasts more accurately than their child counterparts and to maintain this advantage over a two-week-long instruction. However, the two groups did not differ in their developing ability to produce the tested sibilants. A great deal of inter- and intra-individual differences in both learner groups was also attested. Our findings suggest that young L2 instructed learners are not necessarily better and/or faster perceivers and producers of novel language sounds than adult L2 instructed learners, who are able to discriminate a range of novel sibilant pairs even after very limited L2 exposure.

Phoneme discrimination from MEG data

2000 ◽  
Vol 31 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 153-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Lukka ◽  
Bernd Schoner ◽  
Alec Marantz
Keyword(s):  
Phoneme Discrimination
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