Phonological processing differences in bilinguals and monolinguals

Tamminen, Henna; Peltola, Maija S.; Toivonen, Heidi; Kujala, Teija; Näätänen, Risto

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.10.003

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“…Some studies of bilingual adults suggest that their sensitivity to L2 phonological contrasts is influenced by linguistic context (Garcia-Sierra, Ramirez-Esparza, Silva-Pereyra, Siard & Champlin, 2012;Masapollo & Polka, 2014). Other studies support the claim that bilinguals have compromised between two phonological systems (Peltola et al, 2005(Peltola et al, , 2007Tamminen et al, 2013), or support the claim that bilinguals favor one system over another (Hisagi et al, 2015). Hisagi et al (2015) found that adults with early bilingual experience showed accurate behavioral categorization and discrimination of an L2 vowel contrast, similar to the monolingual listeners; this finding is inconsistent with the model suggesting that bilinguals 'compromise'.…”

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Automaticity of speech processing in early bilingual adults and children

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We examine whether early acquisition of a second language (L2) leads to native-like neural processing of phonemic contrasts that are absent in the L1. Four groups (adult and child monolingual speakers of English; adult and child early bilingual speakers of English and Spanish, exposed to both languages before 5 years of age) participated in a study comparing the English /ɪ/ - /ε/ contrast. Neural measures of automatic change detection (Mismatch Negativity, MMN) and attention (Processing Negativity, PN and Late Negativity, LN) were measured by varying whether participants tracked the stimulus stream or not. We observed no effect of bilingualism on the MMN, but adult bilinguals differed significantly from adult monolinguals on neural indices of attention. The child bilinguals were indistinguishable from their monolingual peers. This suggest that learning a L2 before five years of age leads to native-like phoneme discrimination, but bilinguals develop increased attentional sensitivity to speech sounds.

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Automaticity of speech processing in early bilingual adults and children

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“…Also, Vihla et al ( 2002 ) using magnetoencephalography (MEG) found general auditory processing differences in bilingual speakers of Finnish and Swedish relative to monolingual Finish speakers with right hemisphere processing differences (~200 ms) found in response to tone stimuli, as well as vowel stimuli. Also, Tamminen et al ( 2013 ) found different neural patterns for the MMN response to native-language sound contrasts in monolingual subjects relative to balanced bilingual subjects who learned two languages beginning at birth. The authors argued that the two native languages including their phonologies were active in the balanced bilinguals for neural speech processing.…”

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Language Experience with a Native-Language Phoneme Sequence Modulates the Effects of Attention on Cortical Sensory Processing

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Auditory evoked potentials (AEP) reflect spectro-temporal feature changes within the spoken word and are sufficiently reliable to probe deficits in auditory processing. The current research assessed whether attentional modulation would alter the morphology of these AEPs and whether native-language experience with phoneme sequences would influence the effects of attention. Native-English and native-Polish adults listened to nonsense word pairs that contained the phoneme sequence onsets /st/, /sət/, /pət/ that occur in both the Polish and English languages and the phoneme sequence onset /pt/ that occurs in the Polish language, but not the English language. Participants listened to word pairs within two experimental conditions designed to modulate attention. In one condition, participants listened to word pairs and performed a behavioral task to the second word in the pairs (“with task”) and in the alternate condition participants listened to word pairs without performing a task (“without task”). Conditions were counterbalanced so that half the English and Polish subjects performed the “without task” condition as the first testing session and the “with task” condition as the second testing session. The remaining English and Polish subjects performed the tasks in the reverse order. Two or more months separated the testing sessions. Task conditions did not modulate the morphology of the AEP. Attention, however, modulated the AEP by producing a negative shift in the overall waveform. This effect of attention was modulated by experience with a native-language phoneme sequence. Thus, only Polish listeners showed an effect of attention to the native language /pt/ onset when the behavioral task occurred as the second testing session for which attention demands were reduced. This effect began at 400 ms and suggests a mechanism at intermediate stages within auditory cortex that facilitates recognition of the native language for comprehension.

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“…Bidirectional crosslinguistic adaptation has also been found with respect to the distribution of the vowel space (Bergmann, Nota, Sprenger & Schmid, 2016;Mayr, Price & Mennen, 2012), the realization of liquids (de Leeuw, Mennen & Scobbie, 2012), rhoticity (Himmel & Kabak, 2016;Ulbrich & Ordin, 2014) and suprasegmentals (Mennen, 2004). This suggests that L1 and L2 sounds are linked at the 10 system-wide level (Chang, 2012;Mayr, Price & Mennen, 2012), a notion further supported by the fact that the perception of phonological categories in the L1 may become weakened by competing, non-overlapping L2 categories (Tamminen, Peltola, Toivonen, Kujala & Näätänen, 2013).…”

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The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development

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Abstract:Research on second language acquisition and bilingual development strongly suggests that when a previously monolingual speaker becomes multilingual, the different languages do not exist in isolation: they are closely linked, dependent on each other, and there is constant interaction between these different knowledge systems. Theoretical frameworks of bilingual development acknowledge this insofar as they usually draw heavily on evidence of how the native language influences subsequent languages, and how and to what degree this influence can eventually be overcome.The fact that such crosslinguistic transfer is not a one-way street, and that the native language is similarly influenced by later learned languages, on the other hand, is often disregarded. We review the evidence on how later learned languages can re-shape the L1 in the immediate and the longer term and demonstrate how such phenomena may be used to inform, challenge and validate theoretical approaches of bilingual development.Author Comments: This is the final version of the Epistemological paper which has previously been submitted by Barbara Kopke. As she is currently away the editors requested that I make a new submission.

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Phonological processing differences in bilinguals and monolinguals

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Automaticity of speech processing in early bilingual adults and children

Automaticity of speech processing in early bilingual adults and children

Language Experience with a Native-Language Phoneme Sequence Modulates the Effects of Attention on Cortical Sensory Processing

The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development

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