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
2022
Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants
Birulés J, Martinez‐Alvarez A, Lewkowicz D, de Diego‐Balaguer R, Pons F. Violation of non‐adjacent rule dependencies elicits greater attention to a talker's mouth in 15‐month‐old infants. Infancy 2022, 27: 963-971. PMID: 35833310, PMCID: PMC9542527, DOI: 10.1111/infa.12489.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-adjacent dependenciesTalker's mouthTest trialsAudiovisual speechSelective attentionAuditory speechTalker's faceInfant attentionInfants' discriminationFamiliar trialsArtificial languageLanguage acquisitionSpeech processingMore salientSpeechSame languageFaceNovel trialMonths of ageAttentionLanguageDiscriminationAuditoryActressNovel ones
2020
Highly proficient L2 speakers still need to attend to a talker’s mouth when processing L2 speech
Birulés J, Bosch L, Pons F, Lewkowicz D. Highly proficient L2 speakers still need to attend to a talker’s mouth when processing L2 speech. Language Cognition And Neuroscience 2020, 35: 1314-1325. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2020.1762905.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchL2 speakersTalker's mouthNative speakersSecond language speechNon-native languageNon-native speakersProficient L2 speakersL2 speechLanguage proficiencyNative speechTalker's eyesSpeakersTalker's faceSuch attentionExperiment 1Experiment 2SpeechLanguageSpanishProficiencyAttentionTalkersProcessing situationsFaceParticipants