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October 23, 2025Behavioral SciencesOpen Access

Infants Do Not Reliably Track When Bilingual Speakers Switch Languages

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CPChristine PotterCLCasey Lew‐Williams

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Overview

Experiments reveal infants do not reliably recognize language changes in bilingual speakers, suggesting limited cues for language separation.

Key Points

  • Infants did not detect language changes from bilingual speakers, indicating potential gaps in language recognition skills.
  • Across four experiments, looking time measures showed no increased interest in different languages by bilingual infants.
  • Assessment of infant reactions to speaker-language pairings used habituation methods to explore language tracking ability.
  • This work highlights the need for further investigation into how infants perceive language cues from speakers.

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Potter et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f9f86eb2c35e10cc4e3d72https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15101427
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