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Bilingual Infants' Accommodation of Accented Speech ...
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Hudon, Tamara. - : Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013
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Abstract:
Infant word recognition is sometimes hindered by variability in the speech input. Previous research has shown that, at 9 months, monolinguals do not generalize wordforms across native- and accented-speakers (Schmale & Seidl, 2009). In the current study however, it was predicted that bilingual infants would be advantaged in accommodating for accented speech due to experience with phonetic variability across their two phonological systems. It was also predicted that this hypothesized ability would be restricted to accommodating for an accent derived from a familiar language (e.g., French-English bilinguals would accommodate for French-accented English but not Mandarin-accented English), since this type of variability would be consistent with the language sounds to which infants were regularly exposed. Study 1 set the experimental stage by identifying native and non-native speakers with similar voices, as perceived by a group of adults. This was done in order to restrict variability across speakers to ...
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Keyword:
bilingualism; cognition; infancy; phonology
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URL: http://www.ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/26163
https://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3245
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