How early speech perception lays the foundations for language acquisition

This talk will present a series of behavioral, electrophysiological and near-infrared spectroscopy studies with typically developing as well as deaf and cochlear-implanted newborns and infants that explore how infants' early auditory and speech perception abilities support learning the grammar and vocabulary of the native language. The studies explore how very early experience with speech, which begins in the womb, already shapes infants perceptual abilities and their neural correlates. We will then explore how these abilities allow infants to bootstrap and break into the morphosyntax of their native language.

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