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Macleod, Andrea A. N.; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which bilingual speakers maintain language-specific phonological contrasts for homorganic stops when a cue is shared across both languages. To this end, voice onset time (VOT) was investigated in three groups of participants: early bilinguals speakers of Canadian French and Canadian English (n =…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, French, Bilingualism, Phonology
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Munro, Murray J.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Examines the English vowel productions of native speakers of Italian who immigrated to Canada between 2 and 23 years of age and of native English speakers from the same community. Findings reveal an increase in perceived accentedness on every vowel as a function of increasing age of arrival as well as high intelligibility scores for English vowels…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Age, Analysis of Variance, Audiotape Recordings