MINORITY PREDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

这项拟议中的研究旨在扩大我们对如何早期和 孩子们是如何产生能够被感知的元素的 作为给定语言的字符串。我将探索一种创新的方式， 评估年轻双语者和单语者的言语清晰度 通过比较被正确识别的话语的比例， 在上下文无关的情况下，两组中的每一组的听众。 听众会对目标、语言和孩子的状况视而不见 （双语或单语）。待分析的磁带包含 由31名儿童，11名英语/西班牙语双语者， 13名英语单语者和7名西班牙语单语者在玩耍期间 在16到30个月大的婴儿身上记录下来。 一个数字化 将使用一个实用程序，允许一个人提取选定的话语， 把它们录进电脑里。 通过使用此程序，任何 在所选话语之前或之后的父母或孩子语音 这样侦听器就不会留下上下文信息 来影响他们的判断 因此，分析将比较 两个群体中的每一个群体的话语， 与正确的目标相关联，并将进一步研究 用于语言识别的线索。

The proposed research seeks to extend our knowledge about how early and in what ways children can produce elements capable of being perceived as a string of a given language. I will explore an innovative way of assessing speech intelligibility in young bilinguals and monolinguals by comparing the proportion of utterances correctly identified by listeners for each of the two groups in a context-free situation. Listeners will be blind to target, language, and condition of the child (bilingual or monolingual). The tapes to be analyzed contain vocalizations produced by 31 children, 11 English/Spanish bilinguals, 13 English monolinguals and 7 Spanish monolinguals during play sessions recorded in our lab between the ages of 16 and 30 months. A digitizing utility will be used that allows one to extract selected utterances from tapes and record them into the computer. By using this procedure, any parental or child speech preceding or following the selected utterance is removed so that the listeners are left with no contextual information to bias their judgments. The analysis will thus compare the percentages of utterances from each of the two groups that listeners are able to associate with the right target and will further examine the nature of the cues used for language identification.