Bilingual environments provide a commonplace example of increased complexity and
uncertainty. Learning multiple languages entails mastery of a larger and more variable …

This conceptual analysis focuses on opportunities to advance research and current
hypotheses of perceptual development by examining what is presently known and unknown …

Bilingualism has been shown to modify infants' responses in a range of domains. In
particular, early bilingual experience is associated with greater flexibility and openness in …

We report the findings of a multi‐language and multi‐lab investigation of young infants'
ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native language, age and language …

All languages employ consonants and vowels as discrete contrastive subcomponents of the
basic timing units of words (syllables). These two classes of phonemes are used to …

Individual differences in infants' native phonological development have been linked to the
quantity and quality of infant‐directed speech (IDS). The effects of parental and infant …

Adults differ in the ease with which they acquire lexical tones in a non-native language.
Individual differences have been attributed to several factors, such as the role that pitch …

To efficiently recognize words, children learning an intonational language like English
should avoid interpreting pitch‐contour variation as signaling lexical contrast, despite the …

Previous studies reported a non-native word learning advantage for bilingual infants at
around 18 months. We investigated developmental changes in infant interpretation of …

Changing the F0-contour of English words does not change their lexical meaning. However,
it changes the meaning in tonal languages such as Mandarin. Given this important …