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Onset of word form recognition in English, Welsh, and English-Welsh bilingual infants

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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by M Vihman, G Thierry, Jarrad LumJarrad Lum, T Keren-Portnoy, P Martin
Children raised in the home as English or Welsh monolinguals or English–Welsh bilinguals were tested on untrained word form recognition using both behavioral and neurophysiological procedures. Behavioral measures confirmed the onset of a familiarity effect at 11 months in English but failed to identify it in monolingual Welsh infants between 9 and 12 months. In the neurophysiological procedure the familiarity effect was detected as early as 10 months in English but did not reach significance in monolingual Welsh. Bilingual children showed word form familiarity effects by 11 months in both languages and also revealed an online time course for word recognition that combined effects found for monolingual English and Welsh. To account for the findings, accentual, grammatical, and sociolinguistic differences between English and Welsh are considered.

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Journal

Applied psycholinguistics: psychological and linguistic studies across languages and learners

Volume

28

Pagination

475 - 493

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Location

New York, N.Y.

ISSN

0142-7164

eISSN

1469-1817

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal article

Copyright notice

2007, Cambridge University Press

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