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The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-laboratory study.

Author(s): Byers-Heinlein K, Tsui RK, van Renswoude D, Black AK, Barr R, Brown A, Colomer M, Durrant S, Gampe A, Gonzalez-Gomez N, Hay JF, Hernik M, Ja...

Determining the meanings of words requires language learners to attend to what other people say. However, it behooves a young language learner to simultaneously encode relevant non-verbal cues, for...

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Statistical learning of multiple speech streams: A challenge for monolingual infants.

Author(s): Benitez VL, Bulgarelli F, Byers-Heinlein K, Saffran JR, Weiss DJ

Dev Sci. 2020 03;23(2):e12896 Authors: Benitez VL, Bulgarelli F, Byers-Heinlein K, Saffran JR, Weiss DJ

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How bilinguals perceive speech depends on which language they think they're hearing.

Author(s): Gonzales K, Byers-Heinlein K, Lotto AJ

Cognition. 2019 Jan;182:318-330 Authors: Gonzales K, Byers-Heinlein K, Lotto AJ

Article GUID: 30415133
Bilingual toddlers' comprehension of mixed sentences is asymmetrical across their two languages.

Author(s): Potter CE, Fourakis E, Morin-Lessard E, Byers-Heinlein K, Lew-Williams C

Dev Sci. 2018 Dec 23;:e12794 Authors: Potter CE, Fourakis E, Morin-Lessard E, Byers-Heinlein K, Lew-Williams C

Article GUID: 30582256
Title:How bilinguals perceive speech depends on which language they think they're hearing.
Authors:Gonzales K,  Byers-Heinlein K,  Lotto AJ
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30415133?dopt=Abstract
Category:Cognition
PMID:30415133
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Huanghuai University, Zhumadian 463000, China. Electronic address: kalim_gonzales@yahoo.com.
2 Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal H4B 1R6, Canada. Electronic address: k.byers@concordia.ca.
3 Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA. Electronic address: alotto@phhp.ufl.edu.

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How bilinguals perceive speech depends on which language they think they're hearing.

Cognition. 2019 Jan;182:318-330

Authors: Gonzales K, Byers-Heinlein K, Lotto AJ

Abstract

Bilinguals understand when the communication context calls for speaking a particular language and can switch from speaking one language to speaking the other based on such conceptual knowledge. There is disagreement regarding whether conceptually-based language selection is also possible in the listening modality. For example, can bilingual listeners perceptually adjust to changes in pronunciation across languages based on their conceptual understanding of which language they're currently hearing? We asked French- and Spanish-English bilinguals to identify nonsense monosyllables as beginning with /b/ or /p/, speech categories that French and Spanish speakers pronounce differently than English speakers. We conceptually cued each bilingual group to one of their two languages or the other by explicitly instructing them that the speech items were word onsets in that language, uttered by a native speaker thereof. Both groups adjusted their /b-p/ identification boundary as a function of this conceptual cue to the language context. These results support a bilingual model permitting conceptually-based language selection on both the speaking and listening end of a communicative exchange.

PMID: 30415133 [PubMed - in process]