Data file: Identification accuracy and ratings for Korean adoptees', Dutch controls', and Korean controls' productions. from Early development of abstract language knowledge: evidence from perception–production transfer of birth-language memory ...

Children adopted early in life into another linguistic community typically forget their birth language but retain, unaware, relevant linguistic knowledge that may facilitate (re)learning of birth-language patterns. Understanding the nature of this knowledge can shed light on how language is acquired. Here, international adoptees from Korea with Dutch as their current language, and matched Dutch-native controls, provided speech production data on a Korean consonantal distinction unlike any Dutch distinctions, at the outset and end of an intensive perceptual training. The productions, elicited i... Mehr ...