babies become able to distinguish different speech sounds as young as 1 month.
babies become able to distinguish different speech sounds as young as 1 month.
when do babies become able to distinguish different speech sounds?
as young as 1 month
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it has also been discovered that even though infants' ability to distinguish between the different phonetic properties of various languages begins to decline around the age of nine months, it is possible to reverse this process by exposing them to a new language in a sufficient way. in a research study by patricia k. kuhl, feng-ming tsao, and huei-mei liu, it was discovered that if infants are spoken to and interacted with by a native speaker of mandarin chinese, they can actually be conditioned to retain their ability to distinguish different speech sounds within mandarin that are very different from speech sounds found within the english language. thus proving that given the right conditions, it is possible to prevent infants' loss of the ability to distinguish speech sounds in languages other than those found in the native language.
speech perception