Phonemic Discrimination Among Infants

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Moving on, phonemic discrimination, which can be tested through experiments such as the conditioned head turn tests infants on their abiity to discriminate different sounds. Infants are trained to turn their heads to a particular place when certain sounds a made and if they are correct they are rewarded with a toy and if the infant incorrectly guesses there is no reward. This is how the infants are trained in differentiating sounds.
Infants have a wide range of abilities at birth including being able to detect similarities and differences in sounds and language. Sounds are very distinct to infants under 6 months and as their brains develop they differentiate phonemes of both their native and other languages. As infants can differentiate phonemes