Language discrimination by newborns: Toward an understanding of the role of rhythm
Language discrimination by newborns: Toward an understanding of the role of rhythm
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DOI：
10.1037/0096-1523.24.3.756
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发表时间：
1998-06-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Mehler, J
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作者：
Nazzi, T;Bertoncini, J;Mehler, J
三个实验调查了法国新生儿区分不同外语句子的能力。在保留韵律信息的同时，对句子进行低通滤波。婴儿能够区分重音时英语和重音时日语（实验1），但不能区分重音时英语和重音时荷兰语（实验2）。在实验3中，婴儿听到了来自英语、荷兰语、西班牙语和意大利语的不同句子组合。只有当英语和荷兰语句子与西班牙语和意大利语句子对比时，才会观察到歧视。这些结果表明，新生儿使用韵律信息，更具体地说，是节奏信息，根据整体节奏特性将话语分类为广泛的语言类别。本文讨论了这对母语节奏特性习得的影响。
Three experiments investigated the ability of French newborns to discriminate between sets of sentences in different foreign languages. The sentences were low-pass filtered to reduce segmental information while sparing prosodic information. Infants discriminated between stress-timed English and mora-timed Japanese (Experiment 1) but failed to discriminate between stress-timed English and stress-timed Dutch (Experiment 2). In Experiment 3, infants heard different combinations of sentences from English, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian. Discrimination was observed only when English and Dutch sentences were contrasted with Spanish and Italian sentences. These results suggest that newborns use prosodic and, more specifically, rhythmic information to classify utterances into broad language classes defined according to global rhythmic properties. Implications of this for the acquisition of the rhythmic properties of the native language are discussed.