2024
Time Course of Attention to a Talker’s Mouth in Monolingual and Close-Language Bilingual Children
Birulés J, Bosch L, Lewkowicz D, Pons F. Time Course of Attention to a Talker’s Mouth in Monolingual and Close-Language Bilingual Children. Developmental Psychology 2024, 60: 135-143. PMID: 37917490, DOI: 10.1037/dev0001659.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchChild's native languageNative languageNonnative languageSelective attentionEarly linguistic experienceLinguistic experienceBilingual childrenSpanish monolingualsTalker's eyesMonolingualsLanguageTalker's faceTalker's mouthChildren's deploymentBilingualsTalkersEqual attentionTemporal dynamicsDifferential effectsCatalanAttentionUtterancesChildrenFaceTime course
2018
Inside bilingualism: Language background modulates selective attention to a talker's mouth
Birulés J, Bosch L, Brieke R, Pons F, Lewkowicz D. Inside bilingualism: Language background modulates selective attention to a talker's mouth. Developmental Science 2018, 22: e12755. PMID: 30251757, DOI: 10.1111/desc.12755.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTalker's mouthSpanish-learning infantsAudiovisual speech cuesClose languagesLanguage proximityLanguage backgroundEnglish monologuesMonolingual infantsSelective attentionTalker's eyesBilingualsLanguageCatalanGreater salienceSpeech cuesAudiovisual cuesSuch cuesCuesBilingualismMonologueEarly childhoodPrevious findingsAttentionTalkersGreat attention
2014
Infant perception of audio-visual speech synchrony in familiar and unfamiliar fluent speech
Pons F, Lewkowicz D. Infant perception of audio-visual speech synchrony in familiar and unfamiliar fluent speech. Acta Psychologica 2014, 149: 142-147. PMID: 24576508, DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.12.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFluent speechLinguistic experienceLanguage familiarity effectSpecific linguistic experienceAudio-visual synchronyVideo clipsLanguage familiarityLinguistic inputAudiovisual syllablesInfants' perceptionPerceptual tuningFamiliarity effectMonolingual SpanishExperiment 1Experiment 2Infants' responsesSpanish infantsInfant studiesSpeechSame videoCatalanSpanishSynchronous videoTemporal relationsAudio stream