Development of Coronal Stop Perception: Bilingual Infants Keep Pace with Their Monolingual Peers

Autor/inn/en	Sundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Molnar, Monika
Titel	Development of Coronal Stop Perception: Bilingual Infants Keep Pace with Their Monolingual Peers
Quelle	In: Cognition, 108 (2008) 1, S.232-242 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2007.12.013
Schlagwörter	Infants; Monolingualism; French; Language Enrichment; Bilingualism; Phonetics; Auditory Perception; Distinctive Features (Language); Foreign Countries; France + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Französisch; Bilingualismus; Phonetik; Fonetik; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Ausland; Frankreich
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. (Contains 2 figures and 2 tables.) (Author).
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