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Perception and production of rhotics /ɾ/ and /ʁ/ by French-Greek bilinguals and monolinguals| title | Perception and production of rhotics /ɾ/ and /ʁ/ by French-Greek bilinguals and monolinguals |
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| start_date | 2023/10/20 |
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| schedule | 14h-15h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Salle Rousselot |
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| summary | Does bilingual phonological development resemble that of monolinguals? To address this question, we explored bilingual and monolingual phonological acquisition with a specific focus on the production and perception of French and Greek rhotics. Our longitudinal study involved 27 children aged between 2;8 and 6;0 years old, divided into four groups: eight French monolinguals, twelve simultaneous French-Greek bilinguals: six living in France and five in Greece, and seven Greek monolinguals. Our investigation involved two different tasks using the same words with rhotics as syllable onsets: a picture naming task and a mispronunciation detection task.
Results indicate that bilinguals and monolinguals exhibit similar behaviours when facing structural complexity inherent to the rhotic type, particularly in production. However, for bilinguals, accurate realization and identification of rhotics appear to be strongly influenced by language dominance. Error patterns of bilinguals also indicate a potential unidirectional transfer attesting of interferences between the two phonological systems.
In the context of bilingual phonological acquisition, the influence of structural complexity inherent to the learned language(s), as observed in monolingual acquisition, seems to be counterbalanced by external factors such as the quantity of language exposure. |
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| responsibles | Fougeron, Ridouane |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/10/18 13:29 UTC |
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