Welcome to the information and download page for our experiment contrasting linguistic and nonlinguistic auditory processing in early development. Here, you'll be able to download supplemental materials, including the stimuli for this experiment. We ask however that you write to the authors and obtain a password before downloading these materials. This procedure enables us to keep the material protected from potentially being downloaded by any user on the World Wide Web and make them available only for nonprofit, research purposes (see disclaimer below).

To obtain the password send an e-mail to acumming@crl.ucsd.edu with "Sounds Experiment Password Request" in the subject line. Please include the following information in the body of the email:

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Details and Disclaimers

Please note that we cannot provide any technical support, advice, further information (e.g., on how to use these materials in your lab..)

Disclaimer: Some of the environmental sound stimuli are edited versions of sound clips that were originally recorded and made commercially available for royalty-free use by sound effects library vendors. Likewise, the pictures used in this experiment have been collected from various sources and thus some pictures may be protected under copyright law. Please be aware that all of the content at this web site is intended only for nonprofit research and clinical purposes. The authors of this study and their institutions assume no liability related to the downloading and/or use of these items. To use all of the electronic material at this web site including the speech and environmental sounds, the pictures, the text, and their arrangement, you must agree to the following: The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

The materials are available for download as a single compressed file.