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SUBMITTER: Nacar Garcia L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807452 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nacar Garcia Loreto L Guerrero-Mosquera Carlos C Colomer Marc M Sebastian-Galles Nuria N
Scientific reports 20180209 1
Language discrimination is one of the core differences between bilingual and monolingual language acquisition. Here, we investigate the earliest brain specialization induced by it. Following previous research, we hypothesize that bilingual native language discrimination is a complex process involving specific processing of the prosodic properties of the speech signal. We recorded the brain activity of monolingual and bilingual 4.5-month-old infants using EEG, while listening to their native/domi ...[more]