Feature Generalization in Dutch-German Bilingual and Monolingual Children's Speech Production

Autor/inn/en	Stoehr, Antje; Benders, Titia; van Hell, Janet G.; Fikkert, Paula
Titel	Feature Generalization in Dutch-German Bilingual and Monolingual Children's Speech Production
Quelle	In: First Language, 42 (2022) 1, S.101-123 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Stoehr, Antje)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/01427237211058937
Schlagwörter	German; Indo European Languages; Phonology; Contrastive Linguistics; Speech Communication; Generalization; Preschool Children; Bilingualism; Monolingualism; Phonemes; Transfer of Training; Comparative Analysis; Acoustics; Phonetics; Foreign Countries; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Deutscher; Indoeuropäisch; Fonologie; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Bilingualismus; Fonem; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Akustik; Phonetik; Fonetik; Ausland; Niederlande
Abstract	Dutch and German employ voicing contrasts, but Dutch lacks the 'voiced' dorsal plosive /g/. We exploited this accidental phonological gap, measuring the presence of prevoicing and voice onset time durations during speech production to determine (1) whether preliterate bilingual Dutch-German and monolingual Dutch-speaking children aged 3;6-6;0 years generalized voicing to /g/ in Dutch; and (2) whether there was evidence for featural cross-linguistic influence from Dutch to German in bilingual children, testing monolingual German-speaking children as controls. Bilingual and monolingual children's production of /g/ provided partial evidence for feature generalization: in Dutch, both bilingual and monolingual children either recombined Dutch voicing and place features to produce /g/, suggesting feature generalization, or resorted to producing familiar /k/, suggesting segment-level adaptation within their Dutch phonological system. In German, bilingual children's production of /g/ was influenced by Dutch although the Dutch phoneme inventory lacks /g/. This suggests that not only segments but also voicing features can exert cross-linguistic influence. Taken together, phonological features appear to play a crucial role in aspects of bilingual and monolingual children's speech production. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01