@inproceedings{b9520287323a41a7b58c5f9f0d614f6b,
title = "The early bilingual influence on speech and music processing",
abstract = "![CDATA[Previous studies report incongruent findings whether bilingual infants face delays when perceiving native speech contrasts compared to monolinguals. The current study presents three experiments targeting monolingual and bilingual infant vowel, linguistic pitch, and musical pitch perception in the first year after birth. Bilingual infants outperformed their monolingual peers in each experiment, contrasting previous findings. We propose a heightened acoustic sensitivity hypothesis: facing a complex language environment, bilingual infants pay more attention to input acoustic details than monolinguals crossing linguistic and musical domains.]]",
keywords = "infants, bilingualism, speech perception, music",
author = "Liquan Liu",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
publisher = "Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association",
pages = "121--124",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 6-9 December 2016, Parramatta, Australia",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology ; Conference date: 06-12-2016",
}