Sensitivity to race in language comprehension in monolingual and bilingual infants.

•We studied visually-mediated word recognition in monolingual and bilingual infants.•Familiar word-object pairings were associated with own- or other-race speakers.•Fixation to labelled objects was tracked for correct and mispronounced words.•Only word recognition in monolingual infants varied by speaker race.•Bilingual infants had race-neutral responses to correct and mispronounced words.