ERIC Number: EJ1327072
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Publication Date: 2022
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Input Quality and Speech Perception Development in Bilingual Infants' First Year of Life
Kalashnikova, Marina; Carreiras, Manuel
Child Development, v93 n1 e32-e46 Jan-Feb 2022
Individual differences in infants' native phonological development have been linked to the quantity and quality of infant-directed speech (IDS). The effects of parental and infant bilingualism on this relation in 131 five- and nine-month-old monolingual and bilingual Spanish and Basque infants (72 male; 59 female; from white middle-class background) were investigated. Bilingualism did not affect the developmental trajectory of infants' native and non-native speech perception and the quality of maternal speech. In both language groups, vowel exaggeration in IDS was significantly related to speech perception skills for 9-month-olds (r = -0.30), but not for 5-month-olds. This demonstrates that bilingual and monolingual caregivers provide their infants with speech input that assists their task of learning the phonological inventory of one or two languages.
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Speech Communication, Bilingualism, Parents, Monolingualism, Spanish, Languages, Phonological Awareness, Vowels, Speech Skills, Age Differences, Parent Influence
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Language: English
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