Fossil markers of language development: phonological ‘deafnesses’ in adult speech processing

* October, 1999. Reprinted by the authors from J. Durand and B. Laks (Eds) (in press). Cognitive Phonology. Oxford University Press. The names of the authors are in alphabetic order. Research for this paper was supported by a Fyssen grant to the second author. We would like to thank Leticia Maria Sicuro Correa, Anne Christophe, Francois Dell, Jacques Mehler, Marina Nespor, and Franck Ramus for comments and discussion. † Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales CNRS, 54 Bd. Raspail, 75270 Paris Cedex 6, France. Web: http://www.ehess.fr/centres/lscp/persons/dupoux E-mail: {dupoux,sharon}@lscp.ehess.fr. ‡ Departement des Sciences du Langage, Universite Paris VIII, 2 Rue de la Liberte, 93526 Saint Denis Cedex 2, France. Abstract

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