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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages E183-E198Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12747
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- Ministry of Education, Singapore [FY2013-FRC2-009]
- HSS Seed Grant
- Singapore Children's Society
- Institute of Education Sciences [R305A100215, R305A090525]
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Previous studies revealing that monolingual and bilingual infants learn similar sounding words with comparable success are largely based on prior investigations involving single-feature changes in the onset consonant of a word. There have been no investigations of bilingual infants' abilities to learn similar sounding words differentiated by vowels. In the current study, 18-month-old bilingual and monolingual infants (n=90) were compared on their sensitivity to a vowel change when learning the meanings of words. Bilingual infants learned similar sounding words differing by a vowel contrast, whereas monolingual English- and Mandarin-learning infants did not. Findings are discussed in terms of early constraints on novel word learning in bilingual and monolingual infants.
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