Changing a single sound in a word can completely change its meaning. “Bat” can be changed to “pat” through altering the phonetic cue of Voice Onset Time (VOT), or the time it takes from the lips bursting apart to the vocal cord vibration. In any …
Bilingual children hear sentences that contain words from both languages, also known as code-switching (Kremin et al., 2020). Investigating how bilinguals process code-switching is a crucial component in understanding bilingual language acquisition, …
Bilingual parents code-switch, or mix their two languages, when speaking to their infant. Parental code-switching may influence infants’ language development. For example, code-switching slows language processing (Byers-Heinlein, Morin-Lessard, & …
Code-switching (e.g., “Are you hungry? *Est-ce que tu veux une apple?*”) is common in bilingual environments and may affect language acquisition. For example, code-switching has been shown to slow toddlers’ language processing, especially when it …
In an environment where people speak multiple languages, it is common for those languages to be mixed together in everyday speech. This phenomenon, called code-switching, is prevalent in bi- and multilingual settings. When and how does code switching …
In order to successfully acquire both of their languages, bilingual children must discriminate the two languages in their environment. Rhythmicity appears to be a linguistic cue that bilingual infants quickly adopt to differentiate their native …