title: Apples and Oranges: Developmental Discontinuities in Spoken-Language Processing?
abstract: Much research focuses on speech processing in infancy, sometimes generating the impression that speech-sound categories do not develop further. Yet other studies suggest substantial plasticity throughout mid-childhood. Differences between infant versus child and adult experimental methods currently obscure how language processing changes across childhood, calling for approaches that span development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA. Electronic address: screel@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Sarah C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Creel
authors.affiliation: Departments of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Quam
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: developmental methodologies; phonological development; speech perception; word learning