Voice onset time in bilingual German-Spanish children  

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LIeo, Conxita ; Kehoe, Margaret M. ; Rakow, Martin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 7 no. 1 (Apr. 2004), page 71-88.
Fulltext: 2004-7,1;71-88.pdf (349.04KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/BLC/7 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This study examines the acquisition of te voicing contrast in German-Spanish bilingual children, on the basis of acoustic measurement of Voice Onset Time (VOT). VOT in four bilingual children (aged 2;0-3;0) was measured and compared to VOT in three monolingual German children (aged 1;9-2;6), and to previous literature findings in Spanish. All measurement were based on word-initial stops extracted from naturalistic speech recordings. Results revealed that the bilingual children displayed three different patterns of VOT developemnt:1. Delay in the phonetic realization of voicing: two bilingual children did not acquire long lag stops in German during the testing period;2. Transfer of voicing features: one child produced German voiced stops with lead voicing and Spanish voicless stops with long lag voicing; and 3. No cross-language influence in the phonetic realization of voicing. The relevance of the findings for cross-linguistic interaction in bilingual phonetic/phonological development is discussed.

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