Bilingualism affects audiovisual phoneme identification

We all go through a process of perceptual narrowing for phoneme identification. As we become experts in the languages we hear in our environment we lose the ability to identify phonemes that do not exist in our native phonological inventory. This research examined how linguistic experience—i.e., the...

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Main Authors: Burfin, Sabine, Pascalis, Olivier, Ruiz Tada, Elisa, Costa, Albert, Savariaux, Christophe, Kandel, Sonia
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204456/