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Infant Learning of Words in a Typologically Distant Nonnative Language
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Chen, Hui; Labertonière, Dahliane; Cheung, Hintat; Nazzi, Thierry – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Infants attune to their native language during the first two years of life, as attested by decreases in the processing of nonnative phonological sounds and reductions in the range of possible sounds accepted as labels for native words. The present study shows that French-learning infants aged 1;8 can learn new words in an unfamiliar language,…
Descriptors: Infants, Native Language, Language Processing, Language Acquisition