The “Perceptual Wedge Hypothesis” as the basis for bilingual babies' phonetic processing advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging

LA Petitto, MS Berens, I Kovelman, MH Dubins… - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
… -related design, as babies processed linguistic phonetic (… phonetic processing in bilingual
and monolingual babies is … gyrus (associated with phonetic processing) and the left inferior …

Perceptual foundations of bilingual acquisition in infancy

J Werker - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… Of interest, heard language is not the only cue bilingual babies … While the milestones achieved
in bilingual acquisition are … processing challenges and cognitive advantages in bilingual

A bilingual advantage in infant pitch processing

L Liu, P Varghese, G Weidemann - Proceedings of the International …, 2019 - duo.uio.no
… The “Perceptual Wedge Hypothesis” as the basis for bilingual babies’ phonetic processing
advantage: New insights from fNIRS brain imaging. Brain and language, 121(2), 130-143. …

Language processing in a bilingual child

E Ezzat, FM Al-Sharif, H El-Dessouky… - Menoufia Medical …, 2019 - menoufia-med-j.com
… has been linked to both cognitive advantages as … babies, corresponding to the age of
catching the first universal milestone of language acquisition. This concludes that bilingual babies

The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life

M Kalashnikova, J Pejovic… - Developmental Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… of linguistic processing, specifically, the development of general executive functioning skills.
… , as they provide evidence for an early bilingual advantage in another precursor of executive …

A bilingual advantage in visual language discrimination in infancy

N Sebastián-Gallés, B Albareda-Castellot… - Psychological …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
… , babies growing up with … bilingual infants can do so with complex, naturalistic stimuli and
without any feedback provides the strongest support yet for bilinguals’ processing advantage in …

Bilingualism and the executive function advantage in preterm-born children

M Baralt, AD Mahoney - Cognitive Development, 2020 - Elsevier
processing to avoid interference. Whereas infants must allocate attention to differences to their
early bilingual … Háblame Bebé® (Talk To Me Baby) app are examples of free resources for …

New discoveries from the bilingual brain and mind across the life span: Implications for education

LA Petitto - Mind, Brain, and Education, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… affords young bilingual children a reading advantage and may … young bilingual and
monolingual babies have for processing … We especially wondered whether bilingual babies

Semantic and conceptual knowledge underlying bilingual babies' first signs and words

S Holowka, F Brosseau‐Lapré, LA Petitto - Language learning, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We addressed the question of how babies exposed to two languages simultaneously … babies
know that they are acquiring different lexicons right from the start, or whether early bilingual

Cognitive and linguistic processing in the bilingual mind

E Bialystok, FIM Craik - Current directions in psychological …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
… different: How does bilingualism affect cognitive and linguistic … bilingual advantage in judging
sentences has less to do with metalinguistic knowledge than with an attentional advantage