Linguistics & Language · Psycholinguistics & Acquisition
A topic within Psycholinguistics & Acquisition, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Alvin M. Liberman et al.
Argues listeners perceive speech sounds by recovering the articulatory gestures that produced them rather than by decoding the acoustic signal directly, because identical acoustic cues shift categorically depending on phonetic context.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Janet F. Werker & Richard C. Tees
Shows infants can discriminate non-native phonetic contrasts at 6-8 months but lose this ability by 10-12 months unless still exposed to the language, demonstrating that speech perception narrows toward the native language during the first year of life.