{"id":3516,"date":"2026-10-13T12:43:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:43:46","slug":"do-14-month-old-infants-prefer-the-more-commonly-heard-glottal-stop-pronunciation-of-familiar-words-over-the-canonical-pronunciation-or-do-they-accept-both-pronunciations-as-equivalent-suggesting-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/do-14-month-old-infants-prefer-the-more-commonly-heard-glottal-stop-pronunciation-of-familiar-words-over-the-canonical-pronunciation-or-do-they-accept-both-pronunciations-as-equivalent-suggesting-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Do 14-month-old infants prefer the more commonly heard glottal-stop pronunciation of familiar words over the canonical pronunciation, or do they accept both pronunciations as equivalent, suggesting that they have learned to associate the two sounds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study builds on some previous work from the lab that looked at the sounds that infants hear from their parents in their day-to-day lives and found that certain sounds (known as glottal-stops) were more common than the &#8220;prototypical&#8221; (or canonical) form at the end of words. In this experiment, we want to see whether or not 14 month olds prefer this more common sound to the prototypical version in a set of known words, or if they accept both variants at the end of words, suggesting that they have associated the two sounds. This study aims to set up a general timeline for how children learn the sound systems of their language(s).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study builds on some previous work from the lab that looked at the sounds that infants hear from their parents in their day-to-day lives and found that certain sounds (known as glottal-stops) were more common than the &#8220;prototypical&#8221; (or canonical) form at the end of words. In this experiment, we want to see whether &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/do-14-month-old-infants-prefer-the-more-commonly-heard-glottal-stop-pronunciation-of-familiar-words-over-the-canonical-pronunciation-or-do-they-accept-both-pronunciations-as-equivalent-suggesting-th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do 14-month-old infants prefer the more commonly heard glottal-stop pronunciation of familiar words over the canonical pronunciation, or do they accept both pronunciations as equivalent, suggesting that they have learned to associate the two sounds?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-14-months"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3517,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelab.humanities.ucla.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}