Processing of unfamiliar accents in monolingual and bilingual children: effects of type and amount of accent experience.

We examined how experience with accented speech modulates mono- and bilingual children's (mean age: 9;10) ease of speech comprehension for two unfamiliar accents in German, one foreign and one regional. More experience with regional accents helped children repeat sentences correctly in the regional condition and in the standard condition. More experience with foreign accents did not help in either accent condition. The results suggest that type and amount of accent experience co-determine processing ease of accented speech. PMID: 30616700 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Child Language)

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