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Fabiano-Smith, Leah; Bunta, Ferenc – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2012
This study investigates aspects of voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless bilabial and velar stops in monolingual and bilingual children. VOT poses a special challenge for bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking children because although this VOT distinction exists in both languages, the values differ for the same contrast across Spanish and English.…
Descriptors: Time, Phonemes, Phonetics, Monolingualism
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Larson-Hall, Jenifer – Language and Speech, 2006
This study tested the issue of whether extended length of residence (LOR) in adulthood can provide sufficient input to overcome age effects. The study replicates Flege, Takagi, and Mann (1995), which found that 10 out of 12 Japanese learners of English with extensive residence (12 years or more) produced liquids as accurately as native speakers of…
Descriptors: Sentences, Age, Second Languages, Native Speakers