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SUBMITTER: Fleming D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4183269 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fleming David D Giordano Bruno L BL Caldara Roberto R Belin Pascal P
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140908 38
The influence of language familiarity upon speaker identification is well established, to such an extent that it has been argued that "Human voice recognition depends on language ability" [Perrachione TK, Del Tufo SN, Gabrieli JDE (2011) Science 333(6042):595]. However, 7-mo-old infants discriminate speakers of their mother tongue better than they do foreign speakers [Johnson EK, Westrek E, Nazzi T, Cutler A (2011) Dev Sci 14(5):1002-1011] despite their limited speech comprehension abilities, su ...[more]