The use of voice onset time by early bilinguals to distinguish homorganic stops in Canadian English and Canadian French
The use of voice onset time by early bilinguals to distinguish homorganic stops in Canadian English and Canadian French
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早期双语者使用发声时间来区分加拿大英语和加拿大法语中的同音停顿
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2009
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C. Stoel
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A. Macleod;C. Stoel
本研究的目的是检验双语者在两种语言中使用同一线索时，对同构停顿保持语言特定语音对比的程度。为此，我们研究了三组参与者的发声时间（VOT）：早期使用加拿大法语和加拿大英语的双语者（n = 8），使用加拿大英语的单语者（n = 8）和使用加拿大法语的单语者（n = 7）。针对三个问题：双语和单语VOT产生的一般模式是什么？双语者产生的平均VOT与单语者不同吗？双语者与单语者的VOT差异是否不同？VOT的声学测量是用单音节英语和法语单词进行的，这些单词有双音节开头的辅音或冠状停止辅音。结果表明，早期双语者保持了类似单语的音位对比，但他们在类别内表现出比单语者更多的变化。
The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which bilingual speakers maintain language-specific phonological contrasts for homorganic stops when a cue is shared across both languages. To this end, voice onset time (VOT) was investigated in three groups of participants: early bilinguals speakers of Canadian French and Canadian English (n = 8), monolingual speakers of Canadian English (n = 8), and monolingual speakers of Canadian French (n = 7). Three questions were targeted: What are the general patterns of VOT production in bilingual and monolinguals? Do bilingual speakers produce different mean VOT than monolinguals? Do bilingual speakers produce different variability in VOT than monolinguals? Acoustic measurements of VOT were made from monosyllabic English and French words with word-initial bilabial or coronal stop consonants. The results indicate that the early bilingual speakers maintain monolingual-like phonemic contrasts, but that they exhibit more variation within categories than monolingual speakers.