Early word segmentation behind the mask

S Frota, J Pejovic, M Cruz, C Severino… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Infants have been shown to rely both on auditory and visual cues when processing speech.
We investigated the impact of COVID-related changes, in particular of face masks, in early …

Monolingual and bilingual infants' attention to talking faces: evidence from eye-tracking and Bayesian modeling

S Lemonnier, B Fayolle, N Sebastian-Galles… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction A substantial amount of research from the last two decades suggests that
infants' attention to the eyes and mouth regions of talking faces could be a supporting …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of infant bilingualism on audiovisual integration in a McGurk task

E Mercure, P Bright, I Quiroz, R Filippi - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2022 - Elsevier
Infants growing up in an environment where more than one language is spoken tend to
follow the early milestones of early language development. This is an impressive …

The effect of masks on infants' ability to fast-map and generalize new words

LIU Siying, LI Xun, SUN Renji - Journal of Child Language, 2024 - cambridge.org
Young children today are exposed to masks on a regular basis. However, there is limited
empirical evidence on how masks may affect word learning. The study explored the effect of …