Building phonotactic knowledge in bilinguals: role of early exposure |
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Authors: | Sebastián-Gallés Núria Bosch Laura |
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Institution: | Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain. sebastia@psico.psi.ub.es |
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Abstract: | Timing and amount of exposure to a 2nd language in the acquisition of phonotactic restrictions was examined in 4 experiments. In Experiments 1 and 2, 10-month-old monolingual and bilingual Catalan-Spanish infants were presented with nonwords that were phonotactically legal or illegal in Catalan and phonotactically illegal in Spanish. Differences between the 4 groups of infants were obtained as a function of language dominance. In Experiments 3 and 4, adult Spanish-Catalan bilinguals were compared with the same materials. Catalan-dominant bilinguals were more accurate than Spanish-dominant bilinguals in their perception of legal sequences; however, they were not more accurate with illegal sequences. The findings suggest a complex correlation between the pattern of preference and the amount and timing of exposure. |
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