TY  - JOUR
A1  - Boll-Avetisyan, Natalie
A1  - Bhatara, Anjali
A1  - Unger, Annika
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
T1  - Rhythmic grouping biases in simultaneous bilinguals
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - This study provides a novel approach for testing the universality of perceptual biases by looking at speech processing in simultaneous bilingual adults learning two languages that support the maintenance of this bias to different degrees. Specifically, we investigated the Iambic/Trochaic Law, an assumed universal grouping bias, in simultaneous French-German bilinguals, presenting them with streams of syllables varying in intensity, duration or neither and asking them whether they perceived them as strong-weak or weak-strong groupings. Results showed robust, consistent grouping preferences. A comparison to monolinguals from previous studies revealed that they pattern with German-speaking monolinguals, and differ from French-speaking monolinguals. The distribution of simultaneous bilinguals' individual performance was best explained by a model fitting a unimodal (not bimodal) distribution, failing to support two subgroups of language dominance. Moreover, neither language experience nor language context predicted their performance. These findings suggest a special role for universal biases in simultaneous bilinguals.
KW  - simultaneous bilingualism
KW  - universal bias
KW  - rhythm
KW  - rhythmic grouping
KW  - Iambic
KW  - Trochaic Law
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728920000140
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 23
IS  - 5
SP  - 1070
EP  - 1081
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
T1  - Variability and stability in early language acquisition
BT  - comparing recognition and bilingual infants' speech perception and word recognition
JF  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more systematically. The paper gives an overview on findings on early language acquisition in bilingual infants during the first two years of life and compares these findings to current knowledge on early language acquisition in monolingual infants. Given the state of the research, the overview focuses on research on phonological and early lexical development in the first two years of life. We will show that the developmental trajectory of early language acquisition in these areas is very similar in mono- and bilingual infants suggesting that these early steps into language are guided by mechanisms that are rather robust against the differences in the conditions of language exposure that mono- and bilingual infants typically experience.
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - bilingual infants
KW  - bilingual phonological
KW  - development
KW  - bilingual lexical development
KW  - simultaneous bilingualism
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728919000348
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
SP  - 56
EP  - 71
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Höhle, Barbara
A1  - Bijeljac-Babic, Ranka
A1  - Nazzi, Thierry
T1  - Variability and stability in early language acquisition
BT  - Comparing monolingual and bilingual infants' speech perception and word recognition
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more systematically. The paper gives an overview on findings on early language acquisition in bilingual infants during the first two years of life and compares these findings to current knowledge on early language acquisition in monolingual infants. Given the state of the research, the overview focuses on research on phonological and early lexical development in the first two years of life. We will show that the developmental trajectory of early language acquisition in these areas is very similar in mono- and bilingual infants suggesting that these early steps into language are guided by mechanisms that are rather robust against the differences in the conditions of language exposure that mono- and bilingual infants typically experience.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 683 
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - bilingual infants
KW  - bilingual phonological development
KW  - bilingual lexical development
KW  - simultaneous bilingualism
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469718
SN  - 1866-8364
IS  - 683
ER  -