Children’s Auditory Perception and Linguistic Discrimination

Cha, Kyung-Whan; Jo, Hannah

doi:10.17154/kjal.2012.06.28.2.259

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“…This result is similar to Cha and Jo's (2012) study, which showed that kindergarteners' auditory perception is significantly higher than that of college students. This finding provides strong support for the presence of a sensitive period given that children are better than adults at auditory perception.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…The researchers drew a feature of Korean's sensitive period in linguistic discrimination in <Figure 3>. The results enhance and expand our previous findings cross-linguistically (Cha & Jo, 2012). Many studies have focused on young infants' speech perception (Jusczyk, 1999;Kuhl, 1993) and have led to cross-cultural speech perception (Miyawaki et al, 1975;Werker et al, 1981).…”

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confidence: 66%

“…The current study is a follow up to Cha and Jo's (2012) study on children's auditory perception and linguistic discrimination, which showed that children are more sensitive than adults in auditory perception, and that they perform significantly better on linguistic discrimination tasks. These results are evidence for children's superiority in language learning due to the critical period hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…Cha (2011) suggests that "plausible educational implication from the research results is that at an early stage, perception-oriented oral language (listening, pronunciation, and speaking) should be the focus" (p. 23). Based on previous studies (Cha, 2011;Cha & Jo, 2012) and the current study, we can assume that children have an advantage in auditory capacity over adults. Second, the challenge for further research is to explore neurology and linguistics from a language learning perspective.…”

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confidence: 77%

“…Ultrasonic sounds are commonly used medically to precisely detect human auditory capabilities (Cha, 2011;Kim, 2009). The purpose of this study is to investigate how the sensitivity of children's auditory capability relates to listening in language learning as a follow-up research of Cha (2011) and Cha & Jo (2012).…”

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The purpose of this study is to scientifically examine Kuhl's (2011), originally Johnson and Newport's (1989) critical period graph, from a perspective of auditory perception and linguistic discrimination. This study utilizes two types of experiments (auditory perception and linguistic phoneme discrimination) with five different age groups (5 years, 6-8 years, 9-13 years, 15-17 years, and 20-26 years) of Korean English learners. Auditory perception is examined via ultrasonic sounds that are commonly used in the medical field. In addition, each group is measured in terms of their ability to discriminate minimal pairs in Chinese. Since almost all Korean students already have some amount of English exposure, the researchers selected phonemes in Chinese, an unexposed foreign language for all of the subject groups. The results are almost completely in accordance with Kuhl's critical period graph for auditory perception and linguistic discrimination; a sensitive age is found at 8. The results show that the auditory capability of kindergarten children is significantly better than that of other students, measured by their ability to perceive ultrasonic sounds and to distinguish ten minimal pairs in Chinese. This finding strongly implies that human auditory ability is a key factor for the sensitive period of language acquisition.

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