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Havy, Mélanie; Bouchon, Camillia; Nazzi, Thierry – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Infants have remarkable abilities to learn several languages. However, phonological acquisition in bilingual infants appears to vary depending on the phonetic similarities or differences of their two native languages. Many studies suggest that learning contrasts with different realizations in the two languages (e.g., the /p/, /t/, /k/ stops have…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Processing, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Aparicio, Xavier; Lavaur, Jean-Marc – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2014
This study aims to examine language dominance and language switching effects in a series of monolingual and multilingual lexical decisions in which participants have to decide if the presented letter string is a word or not, regardless of language. Thirty participants (12 French-English bilinguals and 18 French-English-Spanish trilinguals) were…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism