Inside Bilingualism: Language Background Modulates Selective Attention to a Talker's Mouth

Autor/inn/en	Birulés, Joan; Bosch, Laura; Brieke, Ricarda; Pons, Ferran; Lewkowicz, David J.
Titel	Inside Bilingualism: Language Background Modulates Selective Attention to a Talker's Mouth
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 22 (2019) 3, (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Birulés, Joan) ORCID (Bosch, Laura) ORCID (Pons, Ferran) ORCID (Lewkowicz, David J.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.12755
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Attention; Human Body; Infants; Eye Movements; Spanish; Cues; Young Children; Native Language; English + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Aufmerksamkeit; Menschlicher Körper; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Augenbewegung; Spanisch; Stichwort; Frühe Kindheit; English language; Englisch
Abstract	Previous findings indicate that bilingual Catalan/Spanish-learning infants attend more to the highly salient audiovisual redundancy cues normally available in a talker's mouth than do monolingual infants. Presumably, greater attention to such cues renders the challenge of learning two languages easier. Spanish and Catalan are, however, rhythmically and phonologically close languages. This raises the possibility that bilinguals only rely on redundant audiovisual cues when their languages are close. To test this possibility, we exposed 15-month-old and 4- to 6-year-old close-language bilinguals (Spanish/Catalan) and distant-language bilinguals (Spanish/"other") to videos of a talker uttering Spanish or Catalan (native) and English (non-native) monologues and recorded eye-gaze to the talker's eyes and mouth. At both ages, the close-language bilinguals attended more to the talker's mouth than the distant-language bilinguals. This indicates that language proximity modulates selective attention to a talker's mouth during early childhood and suggests that reliance on the greater salience of audiovisual speech cues depends on the difficulty of the speech-processing task. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01