Infants can rapidly learn words in a foreign language.
The present study used an object manipulation task to explore whether infants are able to learn words in a foreign language. French-learning 20-month-olds, who were taught new words in either English or French by a bilingual French-English speaker, succeeded in both language conditions.
Bijeljac-Babic
Ranka
R
Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS, Paris, France. Ranka.Bijeljac-Babic@parisdescartes.fr
Nassurally
Khatijah
K
Havy
Mélanie
M
Nazzi
Thierry
T
D002657:Child Development; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D014825:Vocabulary