infants’ ability to differentiate between dialects in their native language

Infants’ Ability to Differentiate Dialects in Their Native Language
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Introduction.
This research focuses on the ability of infants to differentiate phonetic discrepancies between the Southern and Northern dialects in the English language. The following research questions are within the scope of the study: Do children make a distinction between dialects in their native language? Are younger infants able to differentiate between phonemic contrasts?
Literature Overview.
A literature overview on Speech perception research studies has proven that infants are sensitive to the fine-grained differences in expression. In the last six months of their first year of childhood, there is a forecast that they respond less sensitively to phonetic differences although these characteristics fall in their relevance to their native languages. A substantial amount of evidence arrays that infants have the abilities to discriminate contrasts that differentiate words in their own or another language of native but little has been found knowledgeable that they do distinguish phonetic sounds. From the study, evidence showed that infants of the ages of seven months discriminated dialectical differences of linguistically equivalent words with vowel sounds. However, infants of the ages between 11 and 18 months failed to do this. The findings of this study showed that those in the usage of non-native contrasts their infants became less sensitive to some vowel variants of dialect…