By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than nonnative ones. For example, between 6 to 8 mo and 10 ...

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Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That's because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract All languages employ certain phonetic contrasts when distinguishing words. Infant speech perception is rapidly attuned to these contrasts ...