Comparing monolingual and bilingual language acquisition : phonemes and lexicon

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 and the establishment of the lexico-semantic system. The first topic was addressed by assessing the...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Frey, Camille
Formato: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/668759
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668759
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Language acquisition
Bilingualism
Phonetics
Semantics
Adquisición del lenguaje
Bilingüismo
Fonética
Semántica
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Resumo: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 and the establishment of the lexico-semantic system. The first topic was addressed by assessing the possible influence of word-level information on phonetic learning in both monolinguals and bilinguals (both adults and infants). The development of the bilingual lexico-semantic semantic system has been approached by assessing the emergence of inhibitory semantic links in monolingual and bilingual toddlers. Our results showed an impact of bilingualism concerning the use of word-level information in adults but not in infants. For this latter group, our results suggested more an impact of bilingualism on the discrimination abilities. Unfortunately our results for the last study did not allow us to conclude on the emergence of inhibitory semantic effects in the bilingual lexicon.