Developing vowel systems as a window to bilingual phonology

Kehoe, Margaret

doi:10.1177/13670069020060030601

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“…Table 22 has shown that Arabic core cluster are acquired first and Arabic reversals are acquired the last. This delayed production of the marked forms was evidenced in other studies on monolingual children (Elbert, Dinnsen, & Powell, 1984;Gierut, 1999) as well as bilingual children (Keffala, Barlow & Rose, 2016;Kehoe, 2002;LIeo and Cortes, 2013).…”

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The Acquisition of English and Arabic Onset Cluster: A Case Study

Daana

Khrais²

2018

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This study has investigated the development of English and Arabic onset cluster in the speech of a bilingual child. Data was related to several recording sessions of spontaneous and non-spontaneous speech between the first author and her own child. The gradual development of English and Arabic onset cluster was traced in the production of a bilingual child aged between 1 year 04 months and 4 years 06 months. A comparative description of the repair strategy types used by the child to break English and Arabic consonants clustering in word-initial position has been provided. English onset clusters started to appear before Arabic clusters. Arabic core clusters appeared before plateau and reversal clusters. Cluster reduction and epenthesis were used to simplify the clusters in both languages and prothesis was used in Arabic.

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The Acquisition of English and Arabic Onset Cluster: A Case Study

Daana

Khrais²

2018

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“…Like Kehoe (2002), they found that German-Spanish bilinguals' acquisition of long vowels in German was delayed. The Spanish vowel system does not use a length contrast.…”

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Interaction in Spanish–English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure

Keffala

Barlow

Rose

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions:This study investigated whether language-specific syllable type frequency and complexity exerted cross-language influence on Spanish-English bilingual children's acquisition of syllable structure. Design/methodology/approach: We compared the accuracy of bilingual and monolingual children's singleton coda and onset cluster productions from Spanish and English single words elicited via a picture-naming task. Task stimuli provided multiple opportunities to produce all possible singleton coda and onset cluster types in each language. Data and analysis: Ten typically developing Spanish-English bilingual children (ages: 2;01-4;08) completed the task in each language. Five Spanish and 12 English age-matched monolingual peers completed the same task in their respective languages. Data were analyzed using mixed effects logistic regression. Analyses compared bilinguals' Spanish and English singleton coda and onset cluster production accuracy rates to those of monolinguals. Findings/conclusions: Our results indicate that interaction occurred in bilinguals' syllable structure acquisition in both languages. Bilinguals' acquisition of singleton codas was accelerated relative to monolinguals' in Spanish. Furthermore, bilinguals' acquisition of complex onsets was accelerated in both Spanish and English. Results did not suggest that bilinguals' acquisition of English singleton codas was delayed. Originality: This is the first study to show that exposure to patterns of linguistic complexity specific to each language can accelerate bilinguals' acquisition of phonological structure in both languages. Significance/implications: Our findings demonstrate that cross-language differences in complexity influence how interaction appears during bilinguals' phonological acquisition, and suggest further investigation regarding the influence of frequency.

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“…For instance, Caramazza, Yeni-Komshian, Zurif, and Carbone (1973), Flege and Eefting (1987), Port and Mitleb (1983) among others found voicing contrasts and VOT to be different in L1 and L2 speech. Flege, Schirru, and MacKay (2003), Kehoe (2002), Flege, Bohn, and Jang (1997) investigated the differences between L1 and L2 vowel production. Flege, Takagi and Mann (1995) investigated the differences in production and perception of liquid sounds in L1 and L2 speech.…”

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Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language

2016

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We investigated the independent contribution of speech rate and speech rhythm to perceived foreign accent. To address this issue we used a resynthesis technique that allows neutralizing segmental and tonal idiosyncrasies between identical sentences produced by French learners of English at different proficiency levels and maintaining the idiosyncrasies pertaining to prosodic timing patterns. We created stimuli that 1) preserved the idiosyncrasies in speech rhythm while controlling for the differences in speech rate between the utterances; 2) preserved the idiosyncrasies in speech rate while controlling for the differences in speech rhythm between the utterances; 3) preserved the idiosyncrasies both in speech rate and speech rhythm. All the stimuli were created in intoned (with imposed intonational contour) and flat (with monotonized, constant F0) conditions. The original and the resynthesized sentences were rated by native speakers of English for degree of foreign accent.We found that both speech rate and speech rhythm influence the degree of perceived foreign accent, but the effect of speech rhythm is larger than that of rate. We also found that intonation enhances the perception of fine differences in rhythmic patterns but reduces the perceptual salience of fine differences in speech rate.

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Developing vowel systems as a window to bilingual phonology

Cited by 60 publications

References 12 publications

The Acquisition of English and Arabic Onset Cluster: A Case Study

The Acquisition of English and Arabic Onset Cluster: A Case Study

Interaction in Spanish–English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure

Relative Salience of Speech Rhythm and Speech Rate on Perceived Foreign Accent in a Second Language

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