Fundamental frequency (ƒ 0), perceived as pitch, is the first and arguably most salient
auditory component humans are exposed to since the beginning of life. It carries multiple …

We report the findings of a multi‐language and multi‐lab investigation of young infants'
ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native language, age and language …

Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only
recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more …

Some prior investigations suggest that tone perception is flexible, reasonably independent
of native phonology, whereas others suggest it is constrained by native phonology. We …

This study compared tone sensitivity in monolingual and bilingual infants in a novel word
learning task. Tone language learning infants (Experiment 1, Mandarin monolingual; …

Previous studies reported a non-native word learning advantage for bilingual infants at
around 18 months. We investigated developmental changes in infant interpretation of …

A significant body of literature has demonstrated that infants demonstrate a decline in
sensitivity to nonnative sound contrasts by their first birthday, a transition often thought to be …

Findings on the perceptual reorganization of lexical tones are mixed. Some studies report
good tone discrimination abilities for all tested age groups, others report decreased or …

In two artificial grammar learning experiments, we tested the learnability of tonal
phonotactics forbidding non-domain-final rising tones (* NonFinalR) against the …

Research investigating listeners' neural sensitivity to speech sounds has largely focused on
segmental features. We examined Australian English listeners' perception and learning of a …