Research about the ability of infants to distinguish human speech sounds indicates that the infants gradually come to distinguish best the speech sounds of the language spoken around them.
How do infants distinguish speech sounds?
- From birth to 6 months old, infants can distinguish the vowels and consonants of all the different languages spoken.
- At 9 months they can make distinction between speech and non-speech sounds of human and animals respectively.
- Newborns can differentiate between any universal languages and have the ability to learn any sound which humans utter.
- However as they grow they begin to have difficulties in pronouncing non native languages.
- They follow the rhythm of speech and sound and thus start uttering words.
- They learn by listening to the voices of the world around them, by lip reading and matching faces to “eh”, “ah” sounds.
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