Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Ability to Use Non-native Tone for Word Learning Deteriorates by the Second Year After Birth

Monolingual and Bilingual Infants’ Ability to Use Non-native Tone for Word Learning Deteriorates by the Second Year After Birth

Previous studies reported a non-native word learning advantage for bilingual infants at around 18 months. We investigated developmental changes in infant interpretation of sounds that aid in object mapping. Dutch monolingual and bilingual (exposed to Dutch and a second non-tone-language) infants’ wo...

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Main Authors: Liquan Liu, René Kager
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
label–object mapping
lexical tone
bilingualism
interpretive narrowing
perceptual assimilation
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00117/full

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http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00117/full

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