Constraints on Acceleration in Bilingual Development: Evidence from Word Segmentation by Spanish Learning Infants

We have previously shown that bilingual Spanish and English-learning infants can segment English iambs, two-syllable words with final stress (e.g., guiTAR), earlier than their monolingual peers. This is consistent with accelerated development in bilinguals and was attributed to bilingual infants’ in...

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Main Authors: Victoria Mateu, Megha Sundara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-02-01
Series:Behavioral Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/14/2/108