The effects of foreign-language exposure on infants’ understanding of conventional properties of language (조기 외국어 노출이 영아기 언어의 관습성 이해 발달에 미치는 영향)

이윤미; Hyun-joo Song (송현주)

The effects of foreign-language exposure on infants’ understanding of conventional properties of language

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2016, 29(3), pp.215~229
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

이윤미 ¹, Hyun-joo Song ¹

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ABSTRACT

The present study examined whether foreign-language experience in infancy influences the development of understanding that word meanings are shared across speakers of the same language. Thirteen-month-old infants with regular exposure to English (the exposed group) or with very little exposure (the monolingual group) participated in a violation-of-expectation task. First, the infants watched two speakers alternately singing nursery rhymes in Korean. Then one of the speakers provided a novel label (panu) for one of two novel objects. In the following test trials, the other speaker used the same label (panu) to refer to the same object (same-object event) or a different one (different-object event). Monolingual infants looked at the different-object event longer than at the same-object event, while exposed infants looked about equally. These results suggest that exposure to a foreign language can influence early understanding of the conventional nature of language.

KEYWORDS

Language Development, Conventionality, Foreign Language Exposure, Cognitive Development, Violation-of- Expectation Paradigm

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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