Bilingual speech perception and learning: A review of recent trends

• Erin M. Ingvalson ^[1] ; Marc Ettlinger ^[1] ; Patrick C. M. Wong ^[2]
  1. [1] Northwestern University

     Northwestern University

     Township of Evanston, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] Chinese University of Hong Kong

     Chinese University of Hong Kong

     RAE de Hong Kong (China)

     
• Localización: International Journal of Bilingualism: interdisciplinary studies of multilingual behaviour, ISSN 1367-0069, Vol. 18, Nº. 1, 2014 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Multilingual Brains: Individual Differences in Bi-and Multilinguals), págs. 35-47
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Over the past several years, the field of bilingual speech perception has seen a substantial increase in both the number of publications and in the amount of interest directed at its findings. Consequently, the time is ripe to assess the state of the field, what we have accomplished and where we have yet to go. Although we cannot capture the full state of the field in the space of this paper, we hope to summarize the major trends that have led to the current state and take stock of its future directions. To that end, we focus our review on the relative merits of single phonemes versus whole words and phrases when investigating bilingual speech, the efficacy of the different training paradigms that have been attempted and we focus, in particular, on the role of individual differences in predicting learning outcomes. We conclude our review by highlighting recent developments demonstrating that identifying individual differences in ability pre-training can result in more efficacious training paradigms. Goals for future research are also discussed.