The current study explores whether monolingual (n = 32, 17 girls, 15 boys) and multilingual (n = 23, 12 boys, 11 girls) toddlers in French-speaking Switzerland are able to recognize correct pronunciations and detect subtle mispronunciations of familiar words, and whether these early skills are connected to later language abilities. In a looking-while-listening eye-tracking paradigm at 20 months of age, both monolingual and multilingual participants showed significantly higher looking time increases (medium effect size) for pictures of familiar objects (e.g., a foot) when the object was labeled correctly (e.g., pied [pje] "foot") than when it was mispronounced (here, vied [vje]). Notably, processing of correct labels and mispronunciations was moderately correlated with nonword repetition skills, but not vocabulary size, at 36 months, highlighting the predictive value of word recognition tasks for phonological processing.
When elementary-aged children read unknown polysyllabic words, they must parse the orthographic input in order to decode it. Prior studies have not shown clearly whether syllables—as opposed to letters or morphemes—are perceptual units, particularly in children. Children in second, third, and fourth grade (N = 123) wit...
Devin M. Kearns, Hyelin Jeung, Jeffrey Brown et al.· Frontiers in Psychology· 0 citations
Adult and young bilinguals co-activate their languages to different degrees, even in entirely monolingual tasks. However, many studies use translation pairs with high phonological overlap (e.g., the English-GERMAN: "milk"-"MILCH"), making it difficult to discern the origin of the co-activation. This study examined lang...
Daniela S. Avila-Varela, Nuria Sebastian-Galles· Developmental Science· 0 citations
Relatively little is known about the specific characteristics of the spelling abilities of children with developmental language disorder (DLD). This concerns knowledge about spelling patterns and the item characteristics contributing to spelling performance. It has been found that vowel duration spelling in multisyllab...
Wendy Bliekendaal, M. van den Boer, B. Hakvoort et al.· Journal of Experimental Chil...· 0 citations
Early sensitivity to phonotactic probabilities and restrictions suggests that infants may also perceptually repair illegal sequences, as do adult speakers, demonstrating attunement to their language-specific speech input. Here, we report, for the first time, neural evidence for phonotactic repair in French-learning 7-,...
A. Helo, Thierry Nazzi, P. Hallé et al.· Brain and Language· 0 citations
Research on cross-dialectal spoken word recognition suggests integrated processing of social and linguistic information, enabled by the encoding of fine-grained sociophonetic detail. Asymmetries in encoding strength have also been documented, especially concerning idealized or socially meaningful variants. To date, the...
Angela Swain, Melinda Fricke· Frontiers in Psychology· 0 citations
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