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12 - The Speech Perception of Bilingual Infants

from Part III - The Phonetics and Phonology of the Bilingual Child

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

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Megha Sundara
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Mark Amengual
Mark Amengual
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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Over the last ten years, research on groups of infants and toddlers acquiring more than one language from birth has grown rapidly, though it still trails the research on infants learning just one language. This chapter discusses behavioural and neurophysiological findings about how bilinguals perceive spoken language in the first three years of life. This research demonstrates that bilingual and monolingual infants use similar core mechanisms to learn from differing linguistic input. Crucially, comparing their acquisition trajectories allows us to make inferences about the early linguistic representations of bilingual infants.

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accelerationautonomous developmentcognatescomputation modelsconsonant perceptiondelaydifferentiationdual language systemindependent developmentmispronunciationprosodytypological distanceunitary language systemvowel perceptionword segmentation
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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology , pp. 263 - 284
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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