The Role of Experience in Children's Discrimination of Unfamiliar Languages

Five- and six-year-old children (n=160) participated in three studies designed to explore language discrimination. After an initial exposure period (during which children heard either an unfamiliar language, a familiar language, or music), children performed an ABX discrimination task involving two...

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Main Authors: Christine E Potter, Jenny eSaffran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01587/full