As early as birth, infants are especially attuned to language, showing preferences for the sounds in their native language or languages. In this talk, I first describe two types of social inferences that infants make about people based on the language that they speak. Then, I present work suggesting that infants' and children's early linguistic surroundings -- whether they are exposed to a monolingual or bilingual environment -- may impact these types of social inferences.
May 5, 2022 - 9:35am