Constraints on Tone Sensitivity in Novel Word Learning by Monolingual and Bilingual Infants: Tone Properties Are More Influential than Tone Familiarity

Constraints on Tone Sensitivity in Novel Word Learning by Monolingual and Bilingual Infants: Tone Properties Are More Influential than Tone Familiarity

This study compared tone sensitivity in monolingual and bilingual infants in a novel word learning task. Tone language learning infants (Experiment 1, Mandarin monolingual; Experiment 2, Mandarin-English bilingual) were tested with Mandarin (native) or Thai (non-native) lexical tone pairs which cont...

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Main Authors: Denis Burnham, Leher Singh, Karen Mattock, Pei J. Woo, Marina Kalashnikova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
word learning
lexical tone
monolingual/bilingual
infant
nativenan-native
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02190/full

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http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02190/full

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