title: Perceiving onset clusters in infancy.
abstract: By 9-months infants are sensitive to native-language sound combinations. Our studies show that while younger infants discriminate clusters, they are not sensitive to differences in statistical frequency. Thus, the emergence of phonotactic knowledge is driven by experience with the frequency of occurrence of the sound combinations in one's language.
authors.affiliation: Department of Linguistics, University of Calgary, Canada.
authors.forename: Stephanie L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Archer
authors.forename: Suzanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Curtin
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013067:Speech Perception