Author(s): Sander-Montant A; Fibla L; Killam H; Byers-Heinlein K;

A persistent challenge in experimental developmental psychology is determining which of many possible outcome measures best captures underlying behaviors and processes. In the looking-while-listening paradigm for studying early word comprehension, researchers have developed more than 12 distinct outcome measures, but have limited empirical basis for choos ...

Article GUID: 42206598

Author(s): Fibla L; Kosie JE; Tsui RK; Potter CE; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Bilingual children learn their languages through rich interactions with caregivers within dynamic family contexts. However, little is known about how families align their two languages to support bilingual acquisition and how this varies across bilingual communities. This study examines language choice alignment across two communities: French-English fami ...

Article GUID: 42193667

Author(s): Kremin LV; Jardak A; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Bilingual children regularly hear sentences that contain words from both languages, also known as code-switching. Investigating how bilinguals process code-switching is a crucial component in understanding bilingual language acquisition, because young bilinguals experience processing costs and reduced comprehension when encountering code-switched nouns. S ...

Article GUID: 41821919

Author(s): Quirk E; Brouillard M; Ahooja A; Ballinger S; Polka L; Byers-Heinlein K; Kircher R;

Many parents have concerns about raising their children with multiple languages. However, there is a paucity of previous research regarding parental concerns about multilingual child-rearing, particularly in multilingual societies. We address this gap with a corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing in Quebe ...

Article GUID: 41199774

Author(s): Paquette A; Byers-Heinlein K;

Language mixing is a common feature of bilingual communication, yet its predictors and effects on children's vocabulary development remain debated. Most research has been conducted in contexts with clear societal and heritage languages, leaving open questions about language mixing in environments with two societal languages. Montreal provides a unique ...

Article GUID: 41153161

Author(s): Moore C; Donhauser PW; Klein D; Byers-Heinlein K;

The remarkable human capacity for bilingual and multilingual acquisition raises fundamental questions about how the brain develops efficient systems for processing multiple languages. In this study, we used neural network models trained on natural speech input to examine how these efficient representations emerge. Our models show that multiple phonologica ...

Article GUID: 40828024

Author(s): Quirk E; Hadeed N; Byers-Heinlein K;

Family language strategies are approaches that parents adopt for language use with their multilingual children. In bilingual contexts, these strategies influence children's language exposure and development (Macleod et al., 2022). In the more complex context of trilingualism, how families settle on strategies and their relationship with exposure may d ...

Article GUID: 40443954

Author(s): Moore C; Williams ME; Byers-Heinlein K;

Previous research suggests that monolingual children learn words more readily in contexts with referential continuity (i.e., repeated labeling of the same referent) than in contexts with referential discontinuity (i.e., referent switches). Here, we extended this work by testing monolingual and bilingual 3- and 4-year-olds' (N = 64) novel word learning ...

Article GUID: 39798202

Author(s): Alessandroni N; Altschul D; Baumgartner HA; Bazhydai M; Brosnan SF; Byers-Heinlein K; Call J; Chittka L; Elsherif M; Espinosa J; Freeman MS; Gjoneska B; Güntürkün O; Huber L; Krasheninnikova A; Mazza V; Miller R; Moreau D; Nawroth C; Pronizius E; Ruiz-Fernández S; Schwing R; Šlipogor V; Visser I; ...

No abstract available

Article GUID: 39695249

Author(s): López Pérez M; Moore C; Sander-Montant A; Byers-Heinlein K;

Assessing early vocabulary development commonly involves parent report methods and behavioral tasks like looking-while-listening. While both yield reliable aggregate scores, findings are mixed regarding their reliability in measuring infants' knowledge of individual words. Using archival data from 126 monolingual and bilingual 14-31-month-olds, we fur ...

Article GUID: 39639457

Author(s): Lucca K; Yuen F; Wang Y; Alessandroni N; Allison O; Alvarez M; Axelsson EL; Baumer J; Baumgartner HA; Bertels J; Bhavsar M; Byers-Heinlein K; Capelier-Mourguy A; Chijiiwa H; Chin CS; Christner N; Cirelli LK; Corbit J; Daum MM; Doan T; Dr ...

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluations based on third-party interactions emerges within the first year of life: infants preferred ...

Article GUID: 39600132