The number of children living in the United States who are learning two languages is
increasing greatly. However, relatively little research has been conducted on the language …

Human infants become native‐language listeners through a process of perceptual
narrowing. Monolingual infants are initially sensitive to a wide range of language‐relevant …

In the first decade of life, children become bilingual in different language learning
environments. Many children start learning two languages from birth (Bilingual First …

The impact of bilingual exposure on language learning has not been systematically studied
in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This study compared the social abilities and …

Is parental language mixing related to vocabulary acquisition in bilingual infants and
children? Bilingual parents (who spoke English and another language; n= 181) completed …

Abstract Language experience shapes infants' abilities to process speech sounds, with
universal phonetic discrimination abilities narrowing in the second half of the first year. Brain …

The last decade has produced an explosion in neuroscience research examining young
children's early processing of language that has implications for education. Noninvasive …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

Research on the development of speech processing in bilingual children has typically
implemented a cross-sectional design and relied on behavioral measures. The present …

Bilingualism is a powerful experiential factor, and its effects have been proposed to extend
beyond the linguistic domain by boosting the development of executive functioning skills …