Evidence of Early Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments
Evidence of Early Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments
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DOI：
10.1207/s15327078in0201_3
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发表时间：
2001-01-01
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影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
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作者：
Bosch, Laura;Sebastian-Galles, Nuria
先前的研究数据表明，出生后不久，来自单语家庭的婴儿可以区分来自韵律不同的语言的话语，但在2个月大的时候，还没有建立起对英语和荷兰语等节奏相似的语言的区分。就双语者而言，他们能在多早的时候区分接触的语言的问题仍然没有答案。本研究的目的是分析4个月大的双语婴儿的语言辨别能力，同时暴露于2属于同一节奏类别，西班牙语和加泰罗尼亚语的罗曼语。使用熟悉偏好程序，两组双语婴儿表现出区分这两种家庭语言的能力。此外，当与来自单语环境的两组婴儿相比时，观察到的效果的大小是相同的。这些结果可以被视为早期能力的初步证据，区分语言同时双语曝光，从而挑战的假设，语言歧视能力延迟双语。
Previous research data indicate that soon after birth, infants from monolingual families can discriminate utterances drawn from languages that differ prosodically, but discrimination between rhythmically similar languages, such as English and Dutch, has not yet been established by 2 months of age. In the case of bilinguals, the question of how early they can distinguish between the languages of exposure remains unanswered. The goal of this study was to analyze language discrimination capacities in 4-month-old bilingual infants simultaneously exposed to 2 Romance languages belonging to the same rhythmic category, Spanish and Catalan. Using a familiarization-preference procedure, 2 groups of bilingual-to-be infants showed a capacity to discriminate between these 2 familial languages. Moreover, when compared with 2 groups of infants from monolingual environments, the size of the observed effects was the same. These results can be taken as initial evidence of an early capacity to distinguish languages in simultaneous bilingual exposure, thus challenging the hypothesis that language discrimination capacities are delayed in bilinguals.