Evidence for an Early Novelty Orientation in Bilingual Learners

Autor/in	Singh, Leher
Titel	Evidence for an Early Novelty Orientation in Bilingual Learners
Quelle	In: Child Development Perspectives, 15 (2021) 2, S.110-116 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Singh, Leher)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8592
DOI	10.1111/cdep.12407
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Child Development; Infants; Language Processing; Visual Stimuli; Cognitive Processes; Monolingualism; Novelty (Stimulus Dimension); Native Language; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Kindesentwicklung; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachverarbeitung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess
Abstract	Bilingual environments are more complex than monolingual environments. To adapt to this complexity, bilingual infants may navigate their environment in fundamentally different ways than monolingual infants. Drawing from visual, social, and linguistic processing, in this article, I present evidence to suggest that bilingual and monolingual learners demonstrate basic differences in the distribution of attention. Across these areas, bilingual learners appear to orient to novel information over familiar information, more so than monolingual learners. Attending more broadly within one's environment may support flexibility of learning within a complex environment, where underlying structure is harder to detect. However, broad exploration may also protract the process by which underlying structure is detected and learned. This may introduce developmental costs, such as delayed specialization in the native language observed in bilingual infants. In this way, bilingual infants may explore their surroundings in a manner distinct from monolingual infants that is both responsive to and adaptive for a relatively complex environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01