Infant speech perception, language
acquisition, and its
effects on adult
speech perception
My
doctoral dissertation,
supervised by Jacques
Mehler (now at SISSA,
Trieste), was primarily on the earliest perceptual abilities
allowing
newborns to bootstrap themselves into language acquisition. I have
focused
on their ability to perceive speech rhythm.
Ramus, F. (2002).
Language discrimination
by
newborns: Teasing
apart phonotactic, rhythmic, and intonational cues. Annual
Review
of
Language Acquisition, 2, 85-115.
See also:
Nazzi, T. &
Ramus, F. (2003).
Perception
and acquisition
of linguistic rhythm by infants. Speech Communication 41(1-2),
233-243.
Mehler, J.,
Christophe, A., & Ramus,
F.
(2000). How infants
acquire language: some preliminary observations. In A. Marantz, Y.
Miyashita,
& W. O'Neil (Eds.), Image, Language, Brain: Papers
from the
first
Mind-Brain Articulation Project symposium (pp. 51-75).
Cambridge,
MA:
MIT Press.
In collaboration with Peter
Dominey (ISC,
Lyon), I have
also
contributed to a neural network model of these
perceptual
capacities:
Dominey,
P. F., & Ramus, F. (2000).
Neural Network Processing
of Natural Language: I. Sensitivity to Serial, Temporal and Abstract
Structure
in the Infant. Language and Cognitive Processes, 15(1),
87-127.
Language acquisition significantly affects how one
perceives
speech
as an adult. A collaboration with Isabelle
Darcy (now in Potsdam) illustrates one aspect of this
phenomenon:
Darcy, I., Ramus, F., Christophe, A., Kinzler, K.,
& Dupoux, E. (2009). Phonological knowledge in compensation for
native and non-native assimilation. In F. Kügler, C. Féry & R.
van de Vijver (Eds.), Variation
and Gradience in Phonetics and Phonology (pp. 265-309).
Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
See also our recent synthesis on the acquisition of phonology:
Ramus,
F., Peperkamp, S., Christophe, A., Jacquemot, C., Kouider, S., &
Dupoux, E. (2010). A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of
phonology. In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. d'Imperio & N. Vallée
(Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Phonetic Detail and
Phonological Representation (pp. 311-340). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Language acquisition
Infant speech perception, language acquisition, and its effects on adult speech perception
My doctoral dissertation, supervised by Jacques Mehler (now at SISSA, Trieste), was primarily on the earliest perceptual abilities allowing newborns to bootstrap themselves into language acquisition. I have focused on their ability to perceive speech rhythm.
See also:
In collaboration with Peter Dominey (ISC, Lyon), I have also contributed to a neural network model of these perceptual capacities:
Language acquisition significantly affects how one perceives speech as an adult. A collaboration with Isabelle Darcy (now in Potsdam) illustrates one aspect of this phenomenon:
See also our recent synthesis on the acquisition of phonology:
Ramus, F., Peperkamp, S., Christophe, A., Jacquemot, C., Kouider, S., & Dupoux, E. (2010). A psycholinguistic perspective on the acquisition of phonology. In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. d'Imperio & N. Vallée (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology 10: Variation, Phonetic Detail and Phonological Representation (pp. 311-340). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.