Early linguistic experience shapes bilingual adults' hearing for phonemes in both languages

• Main Authors: Pan, Lei, Ke, Han, Styles, Suzy J.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Multilingualism; Preschool Child
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163360
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

English and Mandarin Chinese differ in the voice onset times (VOTs) of /b/ and /p/. Hence the way bilinguals perceive these sounds may show 'tuning' to the language-specific acoustic structure of a bilingual's languages (a discrete model), or a shared representation across languages (...