Pronunciation proficiency in the first and second languages of Korean-English bilinguals  

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Flege, James Emil ; Lill, Serena ; Yeni-Komshian, Grace H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 3 no. 2 (Aug. 2000), page 131-150.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/BLC/3 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study examined pronunciation proficiency in both the first (Korean) and second (English) languages of bilinguals. The participants were adult immigrants whose age of arrival in the USA ranged from 1-23 years. English and Korean sentences were rated by native listeners to obtain measures of pronunciation proficiency. English pronunciation of participants with ages of arrival of 1-5 years was close to monolinguals, heavier accents were noted as ages of arrival increased from 6 to 23 years. Korean pronunciation of participants with ages of arrival 1-7 years was distincly accented, while those with ages of arrival of 12-23 years were rated the same of monolinguals. Participants with ages arrival 1-9 years pronunciation English better than Korean, whereas the reverse was true for ages of arrival 12-23 years. Overall, the results were more consistent with the view that deviations from native pronunciation results from interactions between the languages of bilinguals rather than with the view of a maturaionally defined critical period for language learning.

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