Perceptual narrowing in the context of increased variation: Insights from bilingual infants

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 274-291

  Byers Heinlein, Krista ^a   Fennell, Christopher T ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Early experience; Infant; Language acquisition; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

BILINGUALISM; EARLY EXPERIENCE; INFANT; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893870036     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21167     Document Type: Article

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