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Althéa Fratacci; Olivier Clerc; Mathilde Fort; Olivier Pascalis – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Previous studies found an impact of language familiarity on face recognition in 9- and 12-month-olds. Own race faces are better recognized when associated with native language, whereas for other race faces, it is with non-native language. The aim of this study is to investigate if language familiarity can also influence abstract pattern…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Pattern Recognition, Cognitive Processes
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Polka, Linda; Sundara, Megha – Infancy, 2012
In five experiments, we tested segmentation of word forms from natural speech materials by 8-month-old monolingual infants who are acquiring Canadian French or Canadian English. These two languages belong to different rhythm classes; Canadian French is syllable-timed and Canada English is stress-timed. Findings of Experiments 1, 2, and 3 show that…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, Syllables, Monolingualism
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Gonzalez-Gomez, Nayeli; Nazzi, Thierry – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: In this study, the authors explored whether French-learning infants use nonadjacent phonotactic regularities in their native language, which they learn between the ages of 7 and 10 months, to segment words from fluent speech. Method: Two groups of 20 French-learning infants were tested using the head-turn preference procedure at 10 and 13…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Infants, French, Phonology