其他摘要:Intralexic segmentation and categorization by 9-to-12-month-old Spanish learning infants. Infants become sensitive to phonological regularities that are more consistent in their language input. This sensibility enhances the development of perceptual abilities that will serve as the basis for language acquisition. The aim of this research was to evaluate Spanish learning infants’ basic cognitive abilities for the categorical discrimination of words that coincide in their initial or final segment. The head-turn preference procedure was used in two experiments with infants from 9 to 12 months of age. Infants listened to two types of lists of CVCV words. Items in the experimental lists shared a particular syllable (i.e. onset syllable, Experiment 1 and ending syllable, Experiment 2), whereas items in the control lists were unrelated. Infants showed significant preferences between the lists. These results revealed that Spanish learning infants categorically discriminate not only the words that have a common onset, but also those that share a final syllable, despite the variability in the adjacent syllable. Given the morphology of Spanish, discussion is made on its relationship with the development of these perceptual abilities.