Vowels in development: Speech sound perception in Dutch infants with and without a family risk of dyslexia

This dissertation investigates the development of speech sound categories in infants with (FR) and without (NFR) a family risk of dyslexia. There were four research questions. The first was whether NFR infants would show evidence in favor of perceptual attunement. NFR infants aged 6-, 8- and 10 months were tested on their discrimination performance of a native (a:/ - /e:/) and non-native (English /ɛ/ - /æ) contrast. They showed evidence of discriminating the native contrast. For the non-native contrast, a decline in discrimination performance was found between the 6- and 8-month-old infants. T... Mehr ...