Is retroflexion a stable cue for distributional learning for speech sounds across languages? Learning for some bilingual adults, but not generalisable to a wider population in a well powered pre-registered study

• Main Authors: Goh, Hannah Letitia, Onnis, Luca, Styles, Suzy J.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Bilingualism; Distributional Learning
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/171145
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Bilinguals are widely reported to have certain kinds of cognitive advantages, including language learning advantages. One possible pathway is a language-specific transfer effect, whereby sensitivity to structural regularities in known languages can be brought to to-be-acquired languages that share p...