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Examining Bilingual Language Control Using the Stroop Task
Published on: February 26, 2020
Development of coronal stop perception: bilingual infants keep pace with their monolingual peers
Megha Sundara1, Linda Polka, Monika Molnar
1School of Communication Sciences & Disorders, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. megha.sundara@humnet.ucla.edu
Abstract:
Previous studies indicate that the discrimination of native phonetic contrasts in infants exposed to two languages from birth follows a different developmental time course from that observed in monolingual infants. We compared infant discrimination of dental (French) and alveolar (English) place variants of /d/ in three groups differing in language experience. At 6-8 months, infants in all three language groups succeeded; at 10-12 months, monolingual English and bilingual but not monolingual French infants distinguished this contrast. Thus, for highly frequent, similar phones, despite overlap in cross-linguistic distributions, bilingual infants performed on par with their English monolingual peers and better than their French monolingual peers.
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