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KMID : 1036820160210010001
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Communication Sciences & Disorders
2016 Volume.21 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.14
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Infant’s Speech Perception Research: A Literature Review and an Outlook for Related Korean Studies
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Choi Young-On
Choi Mihye
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Abstract
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Objectives: The goal of the present article is to provide an in-depth review of past studies on infant speech perception. Based on an extensive review, we aim to provide an overview of the field and to propose important roles that research on Korean and Korean-learning infants can play to further test and advance exiting theories.
Methods: We conducted an extensive literature review, encompassing papers published in the past four decades or so, including behavioral studies as well as brain research, and studies conducted with various languages, including recent efforts made towards testing Korean babies.
Results: Our review showed that the existing theories are largely drawn from a few languages, mostly Indo-European and Romance languages, and how recent data from various other languages have challenged the existing model. This suggests that more data from languages such as Korean are essential to further test the development of speech perception theory. Furthermore, our review shows how little has been done to understand Korean babies’ native phonology development.
Conclusion: Studies involving Korean phonology will not only play an important role for developing speech percepton theory, they will also provide developmental normative data for diagnosis/therapy of individuals having difficulty developing Korean phonology.
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KEYWORD
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Speech perception, Development, Infant, Korean, Research methods
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