The Perception and Production of Speeh Sounds

From birth, newborns gradually acquire specific knowledge about what their native language sounds like by listening to the language around them.

Around 6 months, when infants have had the chance to acquire more language experience, changes start to occur in the way speech sounds are perceived.

At this stage, infants gradually improve the way they perceive the existing differences between speech sounds, and they find out which combinations or sequences of sounds are more frequent.