Ayneto Gimeno, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)
Infants can live in a monolingual or a bilingual environment from birth. While being exposed to one or two language does not influence when infants achieve the main language milestones it may require ...
Nácar García, Loreto (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)
Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fundamental difference between infants growing up in monolingual versus bilingual environments is the ...
Pi Casaus, Gisela (Date of defense: 2016-01-15)
Newborns are able to perceive sound of many languages. However, throughout their first year of life, both biological maturation and language exposure attune infants’ perceptual systems to the characteristics ...