{"id":2685,"date":"2022-06-16T20:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T20:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2022-06-19T01:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T01:44:56","slug":"can-infants-learn-a-specific-sound-change-are-they-biased-towards-one-type-of-change-over-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/can-infants-learn-a-specific-sound-change-are-they-biased-towards-one-type-of-change-over-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Can infants learn a specific sound change? Are they biased towards one type of change over another?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previous research has shown that infants are sensitive to phonetic similarity when learning phonological patterns (Steriade, 2001\/2008; White, 2014). Our goal for this study was to see if infants\u2019 willingness to generalize newly learned phonological alternations depend on the phonetic similiarity of the sounds involved. We exposed 12-13-month-olds to words from an artificial language whose distributions provided evidence for a phonological alternation between two relatively dissimilar sounds ([p ~ v] or [t ~ z]) and two relatively similar sounds ([b ~ v] or [d ~ z]). The infants favored and generalized to the pair of sounds that were more similar. The results indicate a learning bias favoring alternations between similar sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous research has shown that infants are sensitive to phonetic similarity when learning phonological patterns (Steriade, 2001\/2008; White, 2014). Our goal for this study was to see if infants\u2019 willingness to generalize newly learned phonological alternations depend on the phonetic similiarity of the sounds involved. We exposed 12-13-month-olds to words from an artificial language whose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/can-infants-learn-a-specific-sound-change-are-they-biased-towards-one-type-of-change-over-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can infants learn a specific sound change? Are they biased towards one type of change over another?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[41,17],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-sound-patterns-and-contrasts","tag-12-months","tag-learning-sound-patterns-and-contrasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}