Strategies for perception of mother tongue: from born to one year old

ABSTRACT Very young babies show very refined language skills being able to perceive many features in adult speech. The perception of the mother tongue is therefore essential to language acquisition. This literature review deals with speech perception skills of children less than one year of age. Therefore, a literature search was performed in 7 databases, in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish, in the period of 2003-2014. From this bibliographic research it was possible to recognize how language acquisition occurs quickly, and that very young infants are able to use elaborate strategies to initiate such acquisition.

摘要：极年幼的婴儿已展现出极为敏锐精妙的语言能力，能够感知成人言语中的诸多特征。因此，母语感知对于语言习得（language acquisition）至关重要。本综述围绕1岁以下儿童的言语感知（speech perception）能力展开。研究人员于2003年至2014年间，在7个数据库中以英语、法语、葡萄牙语及西班牙语开展了文献检索工作。通过此次文献研究，我们得以明确语言习得的快速发生机制，同时发现极年幼的婴儿能够运用精巧策略启动此类语言习得进程。