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Publication Date: 2020
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Compensation for Phonological Assimilation in Bilingual Children
Carbajal, M. Julia; Chartofylaka, Lamprini; Hamilton, Mollie; Fiévet, Anne-Caroline; Peperkamp, Sharon
Language Learning and Development, v16 n2 p141-160 2020
We investigate bilingual children's perception of assimilations, i.e. phonological rules by which a consonant at a word edge adopts a phonological feature of a neighboring consonant. For instance, English has place assimilation (e.g., "green" is pronounced with a final [m] in "green pen"), while French has voicing assimilation (e.g., "sac" is pronounced with a final [g] in "sac vert" "green bag"). Previous research has shown that French and English monolingual toddlers compensate for the assimilation rule of their language, correctly recovering the intended words, but not for a rule that does not exist in their language. Using a word recognition videogame with French sentences, we show that French-English bilingual 6-year-olds perform exactly like French monolinguals of the same age: they compensate for voicing but not for place assimilation. Thus, despite their dual language input they have acquired French voicing assimilation and show no interference from English place assimilation.
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Word Recognition, Video Games, Toddlers, French, English, Bilingualism, Young Children, Phonology, Linguistic Input, Interference (Language), Nouns, Task Analysis, Pictorial Stimuli, Comparative Analysis, Phonemes
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