Voice onset time in spanish-english bilinguals: early versus late learners of english

Thornburgh, Dianne Flax; Ryalls, John

doi:10.1016/s0021-9924(97)00053-1

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“…While the speakers in this study could perceptually separate categories for the stops, their English production of voiceless stop categories was deemed not to be fully independent of their native Spanish production of voiceless stops. Thornburgh and Ryalls (1998) lend further support to the hypothesis that age of L2 acquisition affects durational cues in L2 production in their findings that mean differences between VOT stops in English and Spanish were greater in early bilinguals than in late bilinguals. González-López (2012) found that late English-Spanish bilinguals differentiated their VOTs between English and Spanish stops, from which she affirms that the mechanisms necessary for phonetic category development remain intact over the lifetime.…”

Section: Age-related Phonetic Patterns In Bilingualssupporting

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Durational variability of schwa in early and late Spanish–English bilinguals

Emily

Yavaş

2014

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims: The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether bilinguals categorically displayed shorter or longer schwa durations between fixed word pairs where one word contains a deletable syllable and the other does not (as in "rational" [raeʃənəl] → [raeʃnəl] compared with "rationality" [raeʃənaeləti]). We hypothesized that monolingual and early bilingual speakers would produce shorter values for "deletable" schwas whereas late bilinguals would not. Methodology: Twenty native English speakers and 40 Miami-based Spanish-English bilinguals (20 early and 20 late bilinguals) were asked to read sentences containing target words from 10 semantically related word pairs. Analysis: A three-way mixed model ANOVA was performed to determine the relationship between schwa duration and the following factors: language group, word root, and deletable/nondeletable category. Pairwise t-tests were also performed on individual categories to determine if semantically related pairs differed in duration. Conclusions: Results indicated that native English speakers produce significantly shorter durations for schwa in deletable versus non-deletable position. Early bilingual productions are very similar to those of English-only speakers, whereas late bilinguals display much longer durations in both categories. Originality: This study is the first to directly compare word-internal vowel duration patterns in Spanish-English bilingual speakers. Implications: These results indicate that age of L2 acquisition is a predictive factor in determining how native-like an L2 speaker's pronunciation of reduced vowels will be. Limitations: Given the specific nature of the word pairs tested, a reading instrument was the most efficient manner of eliciting target word pairs. Future studies should try to evaluate this issue using other types of stimuli.

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Section: Age-related Phonetic Patterns In Bilingualssupporting

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Durational variability of schwa in early and late Spanish–English bilinguals

Emily

Yavaş

2014

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Speaker intrinsic factors are also relevant to predicting interaction between a bilingual’s two languages. Specifically, the nature and extent of interaction depends on the age of the speaker, the age at which each language was acquired, the amount of input and output in both languages, and the level of proficiency and dominance in the two languages (e.g., Flege, 1991, 2002; Flege et al, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2002; Thornburgh and Ryalls, 1998; Guion, 2003; Fowler et al, 2008; Simonet, 2010; Antoniou et al, 2011; Lee and Iverson, 2012). …”

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Age of acquisition and allophony in Spanish-English bilinguals

Barlow

2014

Front. Psychol.

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This study examines age of acquisition (AoA) in Spanish-English bilinguals’ phonetic and phonological knowledge of /l/ in English and Spanish. In English, the lateral approximant /l/ varies in darkness by context [based on the second formant (F2) and the difference between F2 and the first formant (F1)], but the Spanish /l/ does not. Further, English /l/ is overall darker than Spanish /l/. Thirty-eight college-aged adults participated: 11 Early Spanish-English bilinguals who learned English before the age of 5 years, 14 Late Spanish-English bilinguals who learned English after the age of 6 years, and 13 English monolinguals. Participants’ /l/ productions were acoustically analyzed by language and context. The results revealed a Spanish-to-English phonetic influence on /l/ productions for both Early and Late bilinguals, as well as an English-to-Spanish phonological influence on the patterning of /l/ for the Late Bilinguals. These findings are discussed in terms of the Speech Learning Model and the effect of AoA on the interaction between a bilingual speaker’s two languages.

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“…+20 msec; Thornburgh & Ryalls, 1998;Zampini, 1998). The Spanish voiced stop consonants /b, d, g/ are typically prevoiced (e.g.…”

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“…Comparing performance by language, participants recognized English CCV− voiceless stimuli more quickly than the Spanish CCV− voiceless (English 58.48% recognition point vs. Spanish 78.76% recognition point). The voice onset time (VOT) for initial voiceless stop consonants is longer in English than Spanish (Thornburgh & Ryalls, 1998;Zampini, 1998). That participants identified the English CCV− voiceless stimuli more quickly may perhaps be attributed to the longer VOT in English than Spanish (e.g.…”

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Spanish–English speech perception in children and adults: Developmental trends

Brice

Gorman

Leung

2013

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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This study explored the developmental trends and phonetic category formation in bilingual children and adults. Participants included 30 fluent Spanish-English bilingual children, aged 8-11, and bilingual adults, aged 18-40. All completed gating tasks that incorporated code-mixed Spanish-English stimuli. There were significant differences in performance according to phonotactic construction of the stimuli, with fastest word recognition on words with voiceless initial consonants. Analysis of developmental trends revealed significant differences in children's performance by grade level and fastest recognition on English voiceless initial consonants than Spanish voiceless initial consonants. Differences in voice onset time between English and Spanish may have contributed to quicker recognition of English voiceless consonants than Spanish voiceless consonants. It is also possible that increased exposure to both spoken and written English may account for faster recognition of English voiceless words than Spanish voiceless words. In conclusion, multiple factors may influence perception of a second language.

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Voice onset time in spanish-english bilinguals: early versus late learners of english

Cited by 39 publications

References 14 publications

Durational variability of schwa in early and late Spanish–English bilinguals

Durational variability of schwa in early and late Spanish–English bilinguals

Age of acquisition and allophony in Spanish-English bilinguals

Spanish–English speech perception in children and adults: Developmental trends

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