Nácar García, Loreto (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fundamental difference between infants growing up in monolingual versus bilingual environments is the ...
Roessler, Abeba (Date of defense: 2012-09-14)
The present dissertation set out to investigate how the linguistic environment affects speech perception. Three sets of studies have explored effects of bilingualism on word recognition in adults and ...
Pi Casaus, Gisela (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
Newborns are able to perceive sound of many languages. However, throughout their first year of life, both biological maturation and language exposure attune infants’ perceptual systems to the characteristics ...
Frey, Camille (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
In the present dissertation we compared monolingual and bilingual language acquisition by exploring two main topics of the early bilingual language acquisition: the establishment of the phoneme system ...