Comparison between bilingual and monolingual children's speech perception tasks.
This study explores how bilingual (Spanish/English) and monolingual (English) children, between the ages of 4 and 6, perform speech perception and auditory tasks. Understanding these differences is important because speech perception underlies literacy, classroom learning, and everyday communication...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Clinical Practice in Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 41 - 51 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2026
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