Leher Singh, Rachel Barr, Paul C Quinn, Marina Kalashnikova, Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo, Kate Freda, Dean D'Souza
Bilingual environments provide a commonplace example of increased complexity and uncertainty. Learning multiple languages entails mastery of a larger and more variable range of sounds, words, syntactic structures, pragmatic conventions, and more complex mapping of linguistic information to objects in the world. Recent research suggests that bilingual learners demonstrate fundamental variation in how they explore and learn from their environment, which may derive from this increased complexity. In particular, the increased complexity and variability of bilingual environments may broaden the focus of learners' attention, laying a different attentional foundation for learning...
April 22, 2024: Journal of Experimental Psychology. General