Patterns of Short-Term Phonetic Interference in Bilingual Speech

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3030034" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/languages3030034</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages3030034" target="_blank" >10.3390/languages3030034</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Patterns of Short-Term Phonetic Interference in Bilingual Speech

Original language description

Previous research indicates that alternating between a bilingual’s languages during speech production can lead to short-term increases in cross-language phonetic interaction. However, discrepancies exist between the reported L1–L2 effects in terms of direction and magnitude, and sometimes the effects are not found at all. The present study focused on L1 interference in L2, examining Voice Onset Time (VOT) of English voiceless stops produced by L1-dominant Czech-English bilinguals—interpreter trainees highly proficient in L2-English. We tested two hypotheses: (1) switching between languages induces an immediate increase in L1 interference during code-switching; and (2) due to global language co-activation, an increase in L1-to-L2 interference occurs when bilinguals interpret (translate) a message from L1 into L2 even if they do not produce L1 speech. Fourteen bilinguals uttered L2-English sentences under three conditions: L2-only, code-switching into L2, and interpreting into L2. Against expectation, the results showed that English VOT in the bilingual tasks tended to be longer and less Czech-like compared to the English-only task. This contradicts an earlier finding of L2 VOT converging temporarily towards L1 VOT values for comparable bilingual tasks performed by speakers from the same bilingual population. Participant-level inspection of our data suggests that besides language-background differences, individual language-switching strategies contribute to discrepancies between studies.

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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ISSN

2226-471X

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Volume of the periodical

2018

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

17

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