Recent evidence suggests that during the first year of life, a preference for consonant information during lexical processing (consonant bias) emerges, at least for some languages like French. Our study investigated the factors involved in this emergence as well as the developmental consequences for variation in consonant bias emergence. In a series of experiments, we measured 5‐, 8‐, and 11‐month‐old French‐learning infants orientation times to a consonant or vowel mispronunciation of their own name, which is one of the few word forms familiar to infants at this young age. Both 5‐ and 8‐month‐olds oriented longer to vowel mispronunciations, but 11‐month‐olds showed a different pattern, initially orienting longer to consonant mispronunciations. We interpret these results as further evidence of an initial vowel bias, with consonant bias emergence by 11 months. Neither acoustic‐phonetic nor lexical factors predicted preferences in 8‐ and 11‐month‐olds. Finally, counter to our predictions, a vowel bias at the time of test for 11‐month‐olds was related to later productive vocabulary outcomes.

中文翻译：

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在生命的第一年出现辅音偏见：来自自己名字识别的新证据。

最近的证据表明，在生命的第一年，词汇处理过程中出现了对辅音信息的偏好（辅音偏见），至少对于法语等某些语言而言是这样。我们的研究调查了涉及这种出现的因素以及辅音偏差出现变化的发展后果。在一系列实验中，我们测量了 5 个月、8 个月和 11 个月大的法语学习婴儿对他们自己名字的辅音或元音发音错误的定向时间，这是婴儿在此阶段熟悉的少数词形式之一。年轻的时候。5 个月大和 8 个月大的孩子对元音错误的定向时间更长，但 11 个月大的婴儿表现出不同的模式，最初对辅音错误的定向时间更长。我们将这些结果解释为初始元音偏差的进一步证据，辅音偏差出现 11 个月。声学-语音和词汇因素都不能预测 8 个月大和 11 个月大的孩子的偏好。最后，与我们的预测相反，11 个月大的孩子在测试时的元音偏差与后来的词汇量结果有关。