A classic study on this
Call me Alix, not Elix: vowels are more important than consonants in own‐name recognition at 5 months
Camillia Bouchon, Caroline Floccia, Thibaut Fux, Martine Adda‐Decker, Thierry Nazzi A · 2015 · Developmental Science
- Children
- 5-month-old babies learning French (number not checked yet)
- Where
- Babies learning French
- Ages
- 5 months
- How
- In a lab, researchers played babies their name with one sound changed and watched how they reacted
- What it found
- At 5 months, babies noticed when a vowel in their name was changed, but not when a consonant was, showing they already knew their name's sound.
- Limits
- A lab study. We read the summary, not yet the full paper.