Infants use multimodal information to imitate speech sounds
M Legerstee�- Infant behavior and development, 1990 - Elsevier
The role of audition and vision in eliciting early imitation of speech sounds was examined in
this study. Thirty infants, 3 to 4 months of age, were presented with the vowel
sounds/a/and/u/. For one half of the infants, these sounds were paired with an adult who
silently articulated the same vowel; for the other half, the adult articulated the opposite one.
Only the infants who were exposed to matched auditory and visual information were
observed to imitate the vowels. The results suggested that multimodal information is useful�…
this study. Thirty infants, 3 to 4 months of age, were presented with the vowel
sounds/a/and/u/. For one half of the infants, these sounds were paired with an adult who
silently articulated the same vowel; for the other half, the adult articulated the opposite one.
Only the infants who were exposed to matched auditory and visual information were
observed to imitate the vowels. The results suggested that multimodal information is useful�…
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