Abstract
Children are exposed to highly variable input from multiple sources within their speech community. This study examines the acquisition of allophones in Spanish and French by monolingual and bilingual children. We hypothesised that two factors would influence allophone acquisition: (1) the amount of exposure to phonological input, and (2) the degree of variability of the allophonic pattern. Thirty-four typically developing 3-year-old participated in the study. The analyses revealed that regardless of the language, the monolingual children produced similar error rates in the production of the target allophones. In contrast, the bilingual children produced different patterns of acquisition of the allophones: the Spanish-English bilinguals produced higher error rates than the monolinguals, whereas the French-English bilinguals produced lower error rates than the monolinguals. Possibilities for these differences are discussed within the context of structural complexity as well as in light of the effects of between-language interaction on bilingual phonological development.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 167-184 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 1 2015 |
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Keywords
- Acquisition
- Allophones
- Bilingualism
- English
- French
- Spanish
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Speech and Hearing
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics
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The acquisition of allophones among bilingual Spanish-English and French-English 3-year-old children. / MacLeod, Andrea A N; Fabiano-Smith, Leah C.
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