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Early prosodic acquisition in bilingual infants
Infants start learning the prosodic properties of their native language before 12 months, as shown by the emergence of a trochaic bias in English-learning infants between 6 and 9 months (Jusczyk et al., 1993), and in German-learning infants between 4 and 6 months (Huhle et al., 2009, 2014), while French-learning infants do not show a bias at 6 months (Hohle et al., 2009). This language-specific emergence of a trochaic bias is supported by the fact that English and German are languages with trochaic predominance in their lexicons, while French is a language with phrase-final lengthening but lacking lexical stress. We explored the emergence of a trochaic bias in bilingual French/German infants, to study whether the developmental trajectory would be similar to monolingual infants and whether amount of relative exposure to the two languages has an impact on the emergence of the bias. Accordingly, we replicated Hohle et al. (2009) with 24 bilingual 6-month-olds learning French and German simultaneously. All infants had been exposed to both languages for 30 to 70% of the time from birth. Using the Head Preference Procedure, infants were presented with two lists of stimuli, one made up of several occurrences of the pseudoword /GAba/ with word-initial stress (trochaic pattern), the second one made up of several occurrences of the pseudoword /gaBA/ with word-final stress (iambic pattern). The stimuli were recorded by a native German female speaker. Results revealed that these French/German bilingual 6-month olds have a trochaic bias (as evidenced by a preference to listen to the trochaic pattern). Hence, their listening preference is comparable to that of monolingual German-learning 6-month-olds, but differs from that of monolingual French-learning 6-month-olds who did not show any preference (Noble et al., 2009). Moreover, the size of the trochaic bias in the bilingual infants was not correlated with their amount of exposure to German. The present results thus establish that the development of a trochaic bias in simultaneous bilinguals is not delayed compared to monolingual German-learning infants (Hohle et al., 2009) and is rather independent of the amount of exposure to German relative to French.
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the case of the perceptual trochaic bias
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Frontiers in psychology 7 (2016), Art. 210, DOI: fpsyg.2016.00210
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Ranka Bijeljac-Babic
Barbara Höhle
Thierry Nazzi
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435
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uncontrolled
bilinguals
eng
uncontrolled
infants
eng
uncontrolled
language
eng
uncontrolled
prosody
eng
uncontrolled
lexical stress
eng
uncontrolled
dominance effects
Psychologie
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Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät
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Department Psychologie
Frontiers
Institut für Psychologie
Universität Potsdam
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Early Prosodic Acquisition in Bilingual Infants: The Case of the Perceptual Trochaic Bias
Infants start learning the prosodic properties of their native language before 12 months, as shown by the emergence of a trochaic bias in English-learning infants between 6 and 9 months (Jusczyk et al., 1993), and in German-learning infants between 4 and 6 months (Huhle et al., 2009, 2014), while French-learning infants do not show a bias at 6 months (Hohle et al., 2009). This language-specific emergence of a trochaic bias is supported by the fact that English and German are languages with trochaic predominance in their lexicons, while French is a language with phrase-final lengthening but lacking lexical stress. We explored the emergence of a trochaic bias in bilingual French/German infants, to study whether the developmental trajectory would be similar to monolingual infants and whether amount of relative exposure to the two languages has an impact on the emergence of the bias. Accordingly, we replicated Hohle et al. (2009) with 24 bilingual 6-month-olds learning French and German simultaneously. All infants had been exposed to both languages for 30 to 70% of the time from birth. Using the Head Preference Procedure, infants were presented with two lists of stimuli, one made up of several occurrences of the pseudoword /GAba/ with word-initial stress (trochaic pattern), the second one made up of several occurrences of the pseudoword /gaBA/ with word-final stress (iambic pattern). The stimuli were recorded by a native German female speaker. Results revealed that these French/German bilingual 6-month olds have a trochaic bias (as evidenced by a preference to listen to the trochaic pattern). Hence, their listening preference is comparable to that of monolingual German-learning 6-month-olds, but differs from that of monolingual French-learning 6-month-olds who did not show any preference (Noble et al., 2009). Moreover, the size of the trochaic bias in the bilingual infants was not correlated with their amount of exposure to German. The present results thus establish that the development of a trochaic bias in simultaneous bilinguals is not delayed compared to monolingual German-learning infants (Hohle et al., 2009) and is rather independent of the amount of exposure to German relative to French.
Frontiers in psychology
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00210
26941680
1664-1078
wos2016:2019
210
WOS:000370597500001
Bijeljac-Babic, R; Nazzi, T (reprint author), Univ Paris 05, CNRS, Lab Psychol Percept, Paris, France.; Bijeljac-Babic, R (reprint author), Univ Poitiers, Poitiers, France., ranka.bijeljac-babic@parisdescartes.fr; thierry.nazzi@parisdescartes.fr
ANR-DFG [ANR-13-FRAL-0010, DFG Ho 1960/15-1]; LABEX EFL grant [ANR-10-LABX-0083]
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Ranka Bijeljac-Babic
Barbara Höhle
Thierry Nazzi
eng
uncontrolled
bilinguals
eng
uncontrolled
infants
eng
uncontrolled
language
eng
uncontrolled
prosody
eng
uncontrolled
lexical stress
eng
uncontrolled
dominance effects
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Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften
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