“…Toward the latter half of the first year, infants begin to attend more to the mouth than to the eyes (Tenenbaum, Shah, Sobel, Malle, & Morgan, 2013). A recent study by Tsang, Atagi, and Johnson (2018) confirmed a relation between attention to talking mouths and increasing verbal skills for both monolingual and bilingual infants between 6 and 12 months old, but the shift of attention from the eyes to the mouth was found earlier for infants exposed to bilingual environments than for those in monolingual environments (Ayneto & Sebastián-Gallés, 2017). A recent study by Tsang, Atagi, and Johnson (2018) confirmed a relation between attention to talking mouths and increasing verbal skills for both monolingual and bilingual infants between 6 and 12 months old, but the shift of attention from the eyes to the mouth was found earlier for infants exposed to bilingual environments than for those in monolingual environments (Ayneto & Sebastián-Gallés, 2017).…”