The amount of language exposure determines nonlinguistic tone grouping biases in infants from a bilingual environment

Language Learning

Volumn 64, Issue SUPPL.2, 2014, Pages 45-64

  Molnar, Monika ^a   Lallier, Marie ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b,c  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Infancy; Language dominance; Nonlinguistic tones; Novelty and familiarity preference; Perceptual grouping; Prosodic bootstrapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906506513     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/lang.12069     Document Type: Article

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