LIMITS ON BILINGUALISM
LIMITS ON BILINGUALISM
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DOI：
10.1038/340229a0
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发表时间：
1989-07-20
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影响因子：
64.8
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SEGUI, J
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作者：
CUTLER, A;MEHLER, J;SEGUI, J
在任何语言中，言语都是连续的;说话者对单词、短语或其他有意义的单位的边界几乎没有提供可靠的线索。为了理解语音，听众必须将连续的语音流分成与这些单元相对应的部分。这种分割过程对于人类的语言理解来说是如此基本，以至于心理语言学家长期以来认为所有说话者都会以同样的方式进行分割。在以前的研究1，2，然而，我们报告说，分割例程可以是特定的语言：发言人的法语过程中的口语单词音节，但发言人的英语不。法语具有相对清晰的音节边界和基于音节的计时模式，而英语具有相对不清晰的音节边界和基于重音的计时模式;因此音节分割在法语的理解中比在英语的理解中更有效。我们目前的研究表明，在语言处理的这一水平上，双语能力是有限的：一个双语者有一种且只有一种基本语言。
SPEECH, in any language, is continuous; speakers provide few reliable cues to the boundaries of words, phrases, or other meaningful units. To understand speech, listeners must divide the continuous speech stream into portions that correspond to such units. This segmentation process is so basic to human language comprehension that psycholinguists long assumed that all speakers would do it in the same way. In previous research1,2, however, we reported that segmentation routines can be language-specific: speakers of French process spoken words syllable by syllable, but speakers of English do not. French has relatively clear syllable boundaries and syllable-based timing patterns, whereas English has relatively unclear syllable boundaries and stress-based timing; thus syllabic segmentation would work more efficiently in the comprehension of French than in the comprehension of English. Our present study suggests that at this level of language processing, there are limits to bilingualism: a bilingual speaker has one and only one basic language.