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Language-Experience Facilitates Discrimination of /D-[delta]/ in Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition of English
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Sundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Genesee, Fred – Cognition, 2006
To trace how age and language experience shape the discrimination of native and non-native phonetic contrasts, we compared 4-year-olds learning either English or French or both and simultaneous bilingual adults on their ability to discriminate the English /d-[delta]/ contrast. Findings show that the ability to discriminate the native English…
Descriptors: Language Enrichment, Monolingualism, French, English (Second Language)