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Bilingual children have more difficulty in ignoring the tone of voice of a spoken word when it is discrepant with the word itself compared to monolingual children, who tend to find the content of a word more difficult to ignore when it is said with a discrepant tone of voice.
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Why is it important?
Bilingual children have shown an advantage when processing discrepant spoken words, but our study shows that this advantage is driven by a difficulty in ignoring the tone of voice of an interlocutor.
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I hope that this article will help understand the development of bilinguals better and help to disentangle the sometimes contradicting results that are found in bilingual populations.
Dr. Marie-France Champoux-Larsson
Mittuniversitetet
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This page is a summary of: A prosodic bias, not an advantage, in bilinguals' interpretation of emotional prosody, Bilingualism Language and Cognition, June 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1366728918000640.
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