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Bilingual versus monolingual infants’ novel word-action mapping before and after first-word production: Influence of developing noun-dominance on perceptual narrowing
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Gogate, Lakshmi Maganti, Madhavilatha |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Description | This experimental study examined bilingual (English and another noun-dominant language) and monolingual (English) preverbal (10.5-month-old) and postverbal (12.5-month-old) infants’ word-action mapping. Sixteen infants in each group were habituated to dynamic video-displays of novel word-action pairings during infant-controlled habituation. They received two words, /wem/ and /bæf/, spoken synchronously with an adult shaking or looming an object, and were tested with switched versus same word-action pairings. Results revealed that for the preverbal bilingual infants, word-action mapping is intensified relative to postverbal bilingual infants. For the postverbal bilingual infants, word-action mapping is attenuated and inversely correlated with noun learning. No such differences were observed in the monolingual infants. These findings illustrate a perceptual protraction prior to word production, and accelerated perceptual narrowing to nouns after word production in bilingual infants learning two noun-dominant languages. |
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| Ending Page | 157 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Starting Page | 148 |
| ISSN | 13667289 |
| e-ISSN | 14691841 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1366728919000051 |
| Journal | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2020-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Language and Cognition Experimental Psychology action Mapping Infant Verb Learning Bilingual Lexical Development Perceptual Narrowing Bilingual Education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Education Linguistics and Language |