Abstract
![CDATA[Perceptual reorganization (PR) for tones occurs from 6 to 9 months in the first year of life. No previous study has discussed whether monolingual and bilingual infants follow the same trajectory in tonal PR. Monolingual Dutch infants and bilingual infants with Dutch as one of their native languages and a non-tone language as the other language were tested on their perception of two tonal contrasts. Results suggest that 1) both monolingual and bilingual infants show PR for tones at the same age range between 5-6 and 8-9 months; 2) bilingual infants seem to show greater sensitivity towards difficult tonal contrasts at a later age; 3) the acoustic salience of the tonal contrast alters infants' tone perception.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL 2012): Nanjing, China, 26-29 May 2012 |
| Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages - Duration: 13 May 2015 → … |
Conference
| Conference | International Symposium on Tonal Aspects of Languages |
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| Period | 13/05/15 → … |
Keywords
- tone (phonetics)
- speech perception in infants
- bilingualism in children
- Dutch language