The Functional Origin of the Foreign Accent: Evidence From the Syllable-Frequency Effect in Bilingual Speakers
The Functional Origin of the Foreign Accent: Evidence From the Syllable-Frequency Effect in Bilingual Speakers
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DOI：
10.1177/0956797609354725
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Laganaro, Marina
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作者：
Alario, F. -Xavier;Goslin, Jeremy;Laganaro, Marina
会说一种以上语言的人在说第二语言时往往带有外国口音。以前的研究集中在语音的声学语音特性，显示语言学习历史如何塑造口音的发生。相比之下，人们对允许一个说话者产生每种语言的音韵和语音表示知之甚少。我们通过音节频率效应研究了这个问题，认为这是语音产生过程中音节大小表征的检索。我们测试了早期和晚期的法语-西班牙语双语者，在这项任务中，材料在两种语言中的音节频率被操纵。非口语语言中音节的频率只影响后期双语者的表现。这被解释为证据，音节表征共享跨语言在后期双语，但在早期双语分开。后期双语者外国口音的功能来源之一可能是提取跨语言共享的音节表征。
Individuals who speak more than one language often do so with a foreign accent in their second language. Previous investigations have focused on the acoustic phonetic properties of speech, showing how language-learning history shapes the occurrence of accent. By contrast, little is known about the phonological and phonetic representations that allow the production of each language within one speaker. We investigated this issue via the syllable-frequency effect, thought to index the retrieval of syllable-size representations during speech production. We tested French-Spanish early and late bilinguals in a task in which the materials' syllabic frequency in both languages was manipulated. The frequency of syllables in the nonspoken language affected performance only with late bilinguals. This is interpreted as evidence that syllabic representations are shared across languages in late bilinguals but are separate in early bilinguals. One of the functional origins of foreign accent in late bilinguals may be the retrieval of syllabic representations shared across languages.