Psychology 3140F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Linguistic Imperialism, Standard Score, Part Of Speech

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3140F/G
• Professor: Debra Jared

Document Summary

Bilingual infants have to learn two sets of phonemic categories and two sets of linguistic labels. They are exposed to each language less than a monolinguals. If learned associative link between name and object, should notice incorrect pairing and increase looking time: results. Bilinguals show a three month delay compared to monolinguals in using phonetic detail to guide associative word learning. As you as 14 month bilinguals could discriminate if there was a switch or not. More demanding task cognitively for bilinguals because they need to make links between sounds and object in two languages. More recent research suggests that bilinguals showed a delay in the fennell et al study because the two words sounded very similar and were designed not to have distinct english or french features. When the two words sound more different or have language-specific pronunciations, there was no delay seen. Byers-heinlein et al: children heard pairings of words and novel objects until habituated: results.