Sensitivity to Prosody at 6 Months Predicts Vocabulary at 24 Months
Abstract
Children’s language acquisition appears effortless, and advances enormously between the first word period, at about 12 months, to the stage at which complete and often complex sentences are produced, at about 3 years. However, this apparently miraculous process may in fact rely on knowledge that the child has began to accumulate even before birth. Indeed, work on infant speech perception in the last 40 years suggests that infants begin to attune to their native language during the first year of life.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Language Development and Disorders
Phonetics and Phonology Research
Reading and Literacy Development
Publication details
- Publisher
- Center for Open Science
- Pages
- 145–156
- Publication date
- 11 September 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Preprint