Journal article
A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech
Advances in methods and practices in psychological science, Vol.4(1), p.251524592097462
01/01/2021
DOI: 10.1177/2515245920974622
PMCID: PMC9273003
PMID: 35821764
Abstract
From the earliest months of life, infants prefer listening to and learn better from infant-directed speech (IDS) compared with adult-directed speech (ADS). Yet IDS differs within communities, across languages, and across cultures, both in form and in prevalence. This large-scale, multisite study used the diversity of bilingual infant experiences to explore the impact of different types of linguistic experience on infants' IDS preference. As part of the multilab ManyBabies 1 project, we compared preference for North American English (NAE) IDS in lab-matched samples of 333 bilingual and 384 monolingual infants tested in 17 labs in seven countries. The tested infants were in two age groups: 6 to 9 months and 12 to 15 months. We found that bilingual and monolingual infants both preferred IDS to ADS, and the two groups did not differ in terms of the overall magnitude of this preference. However, among bilingual infants who were acquiring NAE as a native language, greater exposure to NAE was associated with a stronger IDS preference. These findings extend the previous finding from ManyBabies 1 that monolinguals learning NAE as a native language showed a stronger IDS preference than infants unexposed to NAE. Together, our findings indicate that IDS preference likely makes similar contributions to monolingual and bilingual development, and that infants are exquisitely sensitive to the nature and frequency of different types of language input in their early environments.
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- Title: Subtitle
- A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech
- Creators
- Krista Byers-Heinlein - Concordia Univ, Dept Psychol, Montreal, PQ, CanadaAngeline Sin Mei Tsui - Stanford UniversityChristina Bergmann - Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsAlexis K. Black - University of British ColumbiaAnna Brown - University of LiverpoolMaria Julia Carbajal - École des hautes études en sciences socialesSamantha Durrant - University of LiverpoolChristopher T. Fennell - University of OttawaAnne-Caroline Fievet - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMichael C. Frank - Stanford UniversityAnja Gampe - University of ZurichJudit Gervain - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueNayeli Gonzalez-Gomez - Oxford Brookes UniversityJ. Kiley Hamlin - University of British ColumbiaNaomi Havron - École des hautes études en sciences socialesMikolaj Hernik - UiT The Arctic University of NorwayShila Kerr - McGill UniversityHilary Killam - Concordia UniversityKelsey Klassen - University of ManitobaJessica E. Kosie - Princeton UniversityAgnes Melinda Kovacs - Central European UniversityCasey Lew-Williams - Princeton UniversityLiquan Liu - Western Sydney UniversityNivedita Mani - University of GöttingenCaterina Marino - Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueMeghan Mastroberardino - Concordia UniversityVictoria Mateu - University of California, Los AngelesClaire Noble - University of LiverpoolAdriel John Orena - McGill UniversityLinda Polka - McGill UniversityChristine E. Potter - Princeton UniversityMelanie S. Schreiner - University of GöttingenLeher Singh - National University of SingaporeMelanie Soderstrom - University of ManitobaMegha Sundara - University of California, Los AngelesConnor Waddell - Western Sydney UniversityJanet F. Werker - University of British ColumbiaStephanie Wermelinger - University of Zurich
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Advances in methods and practices in psychological science, Vol.4(1), p.251524592097462
- DOI
- 10.1177/2515245920974622
- PMID
- 35821764
- PMCID
- PMC9273003
- NLM abbreviation
- Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci
- ISSN
- 2515-2459
- eISSN
- 2515-2467
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 30
- Grant note
- ECF-2015-009 / Leverhulme Trust 2011-402470; 2015-03967 / Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); CGIAR ES/L008955/1 / UK Economic and Social Research Council; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) MSCA-IF-798658 / European Commission; European Union (EU); European Commission Joint Research Centre Office of the Deputy President (Research & Technology) funds from National University of Singapore 20311.87608 / Western Sydney University ANR-17-EURE-0017; ANR10-IDEX-0001-02 / Agence Nationale de la Recherche; Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) 609819; 773202 / European Research Council; European Research Council (ERC) 435-2015-1974; 435-2015-0385 / Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) R01HD095912 / National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) Research Manitoba Research Manitoba, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, University of Manitoba
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984627329702771
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