Is retroflexion a stable cue for distributional learning for speech sounds across languages? Learning for some bilingual adults, but not generalisable to a wider population in a well powered pre-registered study

Bilinguals are widely reported to have certain kinds of cognitive advantages, including language learning advantages. One possible pathway is a language-specific transfer effect, whereby sensitivity to structural regularities in known languages can be brought to to-be-acquired languages that share p...

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Main Authors: Hannah L. Goh, Luca Onnis, Suzy J. Styles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2023-07-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/15467.pdf