Keeping Track of Language: Can Monolingual and Bilingual Infants Associate a Speaker with the Language They Speak?

Autor/inn/en	Schott, Esther; Tamayo, Maria Paula; Byers-Heinlein, Krista
Titel	Keeping Track of Language: Can Monolingual and Bilingual Infants Associate a Speaker with the Language They Speak?
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 32 (2023) 3, (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schott, Esther) ORCID (Tamayo, Maria Paula) ORCID (Byers-Heinlein, Krista)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.2403
Schlagwörter	Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Infants; Language Acquisition; Familiarity; Infant Behavior; Second Languages; Task Analysis; Correlation; Associative Learning; Language Usage; Males; Females + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Aufgabenanalyse; Korrelation; Sprachgebrauch; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Weibliches Geschlecht
Abstract	Bilingual infants acquire languages in a variety of language environments. Some caregivers follow a one-person-one-language approach in an attempt to not "confuse" their child. However, the central assumption that infants can keep track of what language a person speaks has not been tested. In two studies, we tested whether bilingual and monolingual 5-, 12- and 18-month-olds spontaneously form language-person associations. In both studies, infants were familiarized with a man and a woman, each speaking a different language, and tested on trials where they either spoke the same language or switched to a different language. In Study 1, infants only heard the speaker, and in Study 2, infants saw and heard the speaker. Bilinguals and monolinguals did not look longer for Switch compared to Same trials; there was no evidence in this task that infants form person-language associations spontaneously. Thus, our results did not support a central assumption of the one-person-one-language approach, although we cannot rule out that infants do form this association in more naturalistic contexts. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01