Advances in the Study of Bilingualism
conversation. Naturalistic data collection was conducted in three distinct com- munities: the Welsh-English community in Wales ( ...
only broadens the child’s linguistic competence, but also deepens their knowledge of concepts, and provide supporting statements ...
non-target language. Chapter 9 reviews the recent evidence relating to lan- guage selection in bilingual language production – a ...
switching between, two languages during classroom activities (Chapters 7 and 8), while the findings from experimental studies lo ...
University. We wish to express our sincere thanks to all of the authors for their excellent contributions to this volume, and to ...
Part 1 Bilingual Speech ...
3 1 Speech Learning in Bilinguals: Consonant Cluster Acquisition Robert Mayr, Danna Jones and Ineke Mennen Introduction A key is ...
detail, but also in their prosody (i.e. rhythm, tempo, loudness, stress, voice quality and intonation), their phonotactic distri ...
(Fabiano-Smith & Barlow, 2010). Evidence for acceleration is, for instance, found in Lléo et al. (2003). This study revealed ...
an interesting area to explore as they constitute one of the most protracted aspects of phonological development (McLeod et al., ...
pattern across languages (Locke, 1983). For example, word-initial clusters consisting of stop + approximant or fricative + appro ...
Welsh speakers, with 52% of speakers proficient in the language according to the 2001 census (http://www.statistics.gov.uk/censu ...
make use of the post-alveolar approximant, and instead use trilled realisations in all instances. Other speakers, on the other h ...
Each session commenced with a brief interaction between the participant and the second author, a native speaker of Western Welsh ...
Effects of age As Tables 1.2 and 1.3 indicate, some clusters were produced accurately by all age groups, including the youngest, ...
Stop + /l/ Performance on stop + /l/ clusters was generally excellent, with per- fect or near-perfect productions from the earli ...
Stop + /r/ The younger age groups found stop + /r/ clusters difficult in both lan- guages, but with increasing age, the children ...
/sn/ (F(6,34) = 4.84, p < 0.001), with a few erroneous realisations in the youngest age group but consistently accurate ones ...
/gr/ (r = 0.628, p < 0.001), /fl/ (r = 0.352, p = 0.024), /fr/ (r = 0.505, p = 0.001), /skr/ (r = 0.718, p < 0.001) and /s ...
16 Part 1: Bilingual Speech Table 1.4 Substitution patterns: Welsh clusters Age 2;6–3;0 3;0–3;6 3;6–4;0 4;0–4;6 4;6–5;0 5;0–5;6 ...
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