Deutsch
 
Hilfe Datenschutzhinweis Impressum
  DetailsucheBrowse

Datensatz

DATENSATZ AKTIONENEXPORT

Freigegeben

Zeitschriftenartikel

Early phonology revealed by international adoptees' birth language retention

MPG-Autoren
/persons/resource/persons1476

Choi,  Jiyoun
Hanyang Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Lab, Hanyang University, 04763 ;
The MARCS Institute and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Western Sydney University;
Other Research, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons1652

Broersma,  Mirjam
Center for Language Studies , External Organizations;
Other Research, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons30

Cutler,  Anne
Emeriti, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
The MARCS Institute and Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Western Sydney University;

Volltexte (beschränkter Zugriff)
Für Ihren IP-Bereich sind aktuell keine Volltexte freigegeben.
Volltexte (frei zugänglich)

Choi_Broersma_Cutler_2017.pdf
(Verlagsversion), 630KB

Ergänzendes Material (frei zugänglich)

pnas.201706405SI.pdf
(Ergänzendes Material), 131KB

pnas.1706405114.sd01.xls
(Ergänzendes Material), 7MB

Zitation

Choi, J., Broersma, M., & Cutler, A. (2017). Early phonology revealed by international adoptees' birth language retention. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(28), 7307-7312. doi:10.1073/pnas.1706405114.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002D-8286-F
Zusammenfassung
Until at least 6 mo of age, infants show good discrimination for familiar phonetic contrasts (i.e., those heard in the environmental language) and contrasts that are unfamiliar. Adult-like discrimination (significantly worse for nonnative than for native contrasts) appears only later, by 9–10 mo. This has been interpreted as indicating that infants have no knowledge of phonology until vocabulary development begins, after 6 mo of age. Recently, however, word recognition has been observed before age 6 mo, apparently decoupling the vocabulary and phonology acquisition processes. Here we show that phonological acquisition is also in progress before 6 mo of age. The evidence comes from retention of birth-language knowledge in international adoptees. In the largest ever such study, we recruited 29 adult Dutch speakers who had been adopted from Korea when young and had no conscious knowledge of Korean language at all. Half were adopted at age 3–5 mo (before native-specific discrimination develops) and half at 17 mo or older (after word learning has begun). In a short intensive training program, we observe that adoptees (compared with 29 matched controls) more rapidly learn tripartite Korean consonant distinctions without counterparts in their later-acquired Dutch, suggesting that the adoptees retained phonological knowledge about the Korean distinction. The advantage is equivalent for the younger-adopted and the older-adopted groups, and both groups not only acquire the tripartite distinction for the trained consonants but also generalize it to untrained consonants. Although infants younger than 6 mo can still discriminate unfamiliar phonetic distinctions, this finding indicates that native-language phonological knowledge is nonetheless being acquired at that age.