Effect sizes in monolingual and bilingual infants on speech perception/word learning tasks

[Yvan Rose]

Dear Leher,
While your question transcends my area of expertise, I would like to suggest that you look at recent work by Christopher Fennell (and colleagues) on the topic. Chris presented evidence at the latest BUCLD conference which suggests that bilingual toddlers are not at a disadvantage in online tasks as long as the experimental setting offers them some indication of what language is relevant to a given form (e.g. a language-appropriate carrier sentence). 

I hope you find this useful.

Best regards,
Yvan


On 2011-11-18, at 12:06, Leher Singh wrote:

> Dear all, 
> 
> I am interested in finding out if effect sizes are generally weaker for bilingual infants as compared with monolingual infants on experimental tasks involving speech perception and word learning. I am wondering if anyone has compared effect sizes associated with monolinguals and bilinguals infants on the same task (preferably tasks that don't favor one group over the other) and if group differences are observed. Any information on this topic would be greatly appreciated! 
> 
> Sincerely, 
> Leher Singh
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