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Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition
Abstract: Bilingual children cope with a significant amount of phonetic variability when processing speech, and must learn to weigh phonetic cues differently depending on the cues’ respective roles in their two languages. For example, vowel nasalization is coarticulatory and contrastive in French, but coarticulatory-only in English. In this study, we extended an investigation of the processing of coarticulation in two- to three-year-old English monolingual children (Zamuner, Moore & Desmeules-Trudel, 2016) to a group of four- to six-year-old English monolingual children and age-matched English-French bilingual children. Using eye tracking, we found that older monolingual children and age-matched bilingual children showed more sensitivity to coarticulation cues than the younger children. Moreover, when comparing the older monolinguals and bilinguals, we found no statistical differences between the two groups. These results offer support for the specification of coarticulation in word representations, and indicate that in some cases, bilingual children possess language processing skills similar to monolinguals. ; FDT benefited from doctoral scholarships from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et Culture and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), CM from a M.A. scholarship from SSHRC, and TZ from a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) research grant for the completion of this research.
Keyword: Bilingualism; Coarticulation processing; Eye tracking; Language development
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/42734
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000100
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