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Peer reviewedEilers, Rebecca E.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Argues that Aslin and Pisoni's criticisms are basically unwarranted on both methodological and conceptual grounds. (RMH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Infants, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedEilers, Rebecca E.; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Discusses the possibility that early linguistic experience affects infant speech perception and that this effect may be of practical consequence in later language learning. (EKN)
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Czech, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedOller, D. Kimbrough; Cobo-Lewis, Alan B.; Eilers, Rebecca E. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
This study investigated phonological translation using a task designed to measure children's ability to map one phonological system onto another. Kindergarten and second-grade monolingual and bilingual students were evaluated. Results suggest that monolinguals generally performed poorly. Phonological translation is proposed as a tool with which to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Mapping, English
