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Jones, Caroline; Meakins, Felicity; Muawiyath, Shujau – Language Learning, 2012
Distributional learning is a proposal for how infants might learn early speech sound categories from acoustic input before they know many words. When categories in the input differ greatly in relative frequency and overlap in acoustic space, research in bilingual development suggests that this affects the course of development. In the present…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Foreign Countries, Vowels, Bilingualism
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De Courcy, Michele – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1993
This report discusses an investigation on the processes involved in the acquisition of French by students in late immersion programs in Australia. An ethnographic style of data collection was used in the study, which covered a full year. (Contains 14 references.) (JL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, French