Vowel Reduction in German-Spanish Bilinguals
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1. | Title | Title of document | Vowel Reduction in German-Spanish Bilinguals - Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Margaret Kehoe; University of Geneva; |
2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Conxita LleĆ³; University of Hamburg (Retired); |
3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Linguistics |
4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Rhythm; Bilingual children; Vowel Reduction; Vowels; Stress-timed,;Syllable-timed; Prosodic development; Cross-linguistic interaction |
5. | Subject | Subject classification | phonology |
6. | Description | Abstract | Vowel reduction maximizes the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables. In stress-timed languages, vowels of unstressed syllables are reduced, but not in syllable-timed languages. In this study, we examine the development of unstressed syllables in German (stress-timed) and Spanish (syllable-timed). The empirical data-base consists of the productions of three bilingual German-Spanish children recorded longitudinally, who are then compared to three monolingual German and Spanish children. Vowel quality and duration of unstressed syllables were measured in two- to four-syllable words extracted from the data-base at ages 2;6 through to 3;0 years. Results indicated that bilingual children were mildly disadvantaged in the acquisition of reduced syllables in German as compared to monolingual children, although not in word-final position, and that they produced non-reduced syllables in Spanish in a similar way to their monolingual counterparts. Thus, there was some delay and transfer from the language with simple syllables to the language with complex ones. |
7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
8. | Contributor | Sponsor(s) | |
9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 16-Jan-2017 |
10. | Type | Status & genre | Peer-reviewed Article |
11. | Type | Type | |
12. | Format | File format | |
13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/27352 |
14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.27352 |
15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology |
16. | Language | English=en | en |
18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
world, contemporary |
19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |