| Abstract |
In this dissertation, I show that Dutch infants can learn about the man-vowel and the maan-vowel by just listening to the vowel sounds that their mothers say. Dutch mothers do not pronounce the man-vowel and the maan-vowel very clearly for their language-learning baby, because they are too busy playing and smiling. And that is not a problem. The learning mechanism of the babies is sufficiently powerful that they do not need to be taught about the man-vowel and the maan-vowel. Babies take care of it themselves.
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