Infants' early language experiences play a critical role on their language development. In this dissertation, I explored the nature of this relationship in a bilingual context. Specifically, I investigated how bilingual caregivers are providing language input to their infants, and how global measures of this bilingual experience affect early word segmentation (i.e., the ability to recognize words in a sentential context). This work is important for understanding the factors that contribute to the developmental trajectory and processing capacities of bilingual infants. In the first part of this dissertation, I assessed research methods for examining the language input to bilingual infants. To do so, I recruited twenty-one French-English bili...
Discusses the influence of bilingualism on infant sound and word acquisition in the first two years ...
The human affinity for language begins at or before birth. Neonates show many perceptual sensitiviti...
Monolingual infants are typically studied as a homogenous group and compared to bilingual infants. T...
During the first years of life, children rapidly learn to process speech from a continuous acoustic ...
To rise to the challenge of acquiring their native language, infants must deploy tools to support th...
Almost one in six children in Canada grow up hearing two languages. Bilingual children frequently en...
This dissertation reports on the influence of bilingualism on infants’ sound and word acquisition in...
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fun...
Bilingual acquisition presents learning challenges beyond those found in monolingual environments, i...
Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, language acquisition research has focused on monolingual inf...
Phonetic variation is inherent in natural speech. It can be lexically relevant, differentiating word...
Children growing up bilingual face a unique linguistic environment. The current study investigated w...
Epub 2021 Oct 20Individual differences in infants’ native phonological development have been linked...
Fourteen-month-old infants raised in a monolingual English environment confuse phonetically similar...
Previous research indicates that monolingual infants have difficulty learning minimal pairs (i.e., w...
Discusses the influence of bilingualism on infant sound and word acquisition in the first two years ...
The human affinity for language begins at or before birth. Neonates show many perceptual sensitiviti...
Monolingual infants are typically studied as a homogenous group and compared to bilingual infants. T...
During the first years of life, children rapidly learn to process speech from a continuous acoustic ...
To rise to the challenge of acquiring their native language, infants must deploy tools to support th...
Almost one in six children in Canada grow up hearing two languages. Bilingual children frequently en...
This dissertation reports on the influence of bilingualism on infants’ sound and word acquisition in...
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fun...
Bilingual acquisition presents learning challenges beyond those found in monolingual environments, i...
Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, language acquisition research has focused on monolingual inf...
Phonetic variation is inherent in natural speech. It can be lexically relevant, differentiating word...
Children growing up bilingual face a unique linguistic environment. The current study investigated w...
Epub 2021 Oct 20Individual differences in infants’ native phonological development have been linked...
Fourteen-month-old infants raised in a monolingual English environment confuse phonetically similar...
Previous research indicates that monolingual infants have difficulty learning minimal pairs (i.e., w...
Discusses the influence of bilingualism on infant sound and word acquisition in the first two years ...
The human affinity for language begins at or before birth. Neonates show many perceptual sensitiviti...
Monolingual infants are typically studied as a homogenous group and compared to bilingual infants. T...