An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Word-Initial Stop Production by Young Simultaneous Mandarin- English Bilingual Children

Qi, Ruying; Tsukada, Kimiko; Hua, Zhu

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“…This finding was consistent with previous bilingual studies. Qi et al (2012) reported that the two Mandarin–English bilingual children in their study ‘do not automatically equate the VOT values of English and Mandarin voiceless stops even though the two languages may have similar VOT characteristics’ (p. 82). In the present study, our data revealed that even for the short-lag VOTs that show no difference between the monolingual speakers of each language, both Bi-low and Bi-high children still showed a significant language difference.…”

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“…Little data has been published on the comparison of VOT values in Mandarin and English monolingual children as well as bilingual Mandarin–English children. Recently, one case study reported by Qi et al (2012) examined the production of word-initial voiceless stops /p, t, k/ in English and aspirated stops /p h , t h , k h / in Mandarin by two Mandarin–English bilingual children. This study recorded spontaneous speech from one boy and one girl over a 9-month period from the time when they were 5;03 and 2;07 years old, respectively.…”

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Comparison of VOTs in Mandarin–English bilingual children and corresponding monolingual children and adults

Yang

2019

Second Language Research

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Word-initial stops in Mandarin and English show a distinctive phonological categorization but a similar phonetic realization along the VOT (Voice Onset Time) continuum. Previous research reported that native Mandarin adults produce measurably longer long-lag VOTs than native English adults. The present study examined whether and how the difference between Mandarin and English VOTs is manifested in monolingual children and Mandarin–English bilingual children. The participants included 15 five- to six-year-old sequential bilingual children, 24 corresponding monolingual children (15 Mandarin, 9 English), and 22 monolingual adults (12 Mandarin, 10 English). The bilingual children were divided into two groups (Bi-low and Bi-high) based on the amount of experience in English. Each participant was recorded producing 18 Mandarin words and/or 18 English words containing six stops in each language. The VOT values were measured from the beginning of stop burst to the onset of the voicing. The results showed that the language difference in VOT in the monolingual children was manifested in a pattern similar to the monolingual adults. However, Mandarin and English VOTs showed less separable distributions in the two groups of bilingual children. Further analysis suggested that both groups of bilingual children tended to separate Mandarin and English short-lag VOTs but only the Bi-low children showed different long-lag VOTs between the two languages. These results suggested that due to the bilingual effects and L1–L2 (first language – second language) interactions, even though the bilingual children tried to separate the two VOT systems, they implemented the separation in a different manner than the monolingual speakers.

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Comparison of VOTs in Mandarin–English bilingual children and corresponding monolingual children and adults

Yang

2019

Second Language Research

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“…The authors attributed this to the influence of English on Italian but not on Spanish. Language-specific VOT production has also been documented in children who speak Mandarin and English, both aspirating languages (Yang, 2021;Qi et al, 2012). These children produced distinct VOT in Mandarin and English shortlag and aspirated plosives.…”

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Bilinguals produce language-specific voice onset time in two true-voicing languages

Souganidis

Molinaro

Stoehr

2022

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It is well established that early bilinguals who speak languages that differ in the phonetic implementation of the voicing contrast have language-specific voicing systems. This study investigates voicing separation in bilinguals who speak two true-voicing languages, Basque and Spanish. We also describe the voicing system in Gipuzkoan Spanish and Gipuzkoan Basque, which is the closest dialect to Standard Basque and it has not yet been investigated experimentally. Twenty Basque-Spanish early bilingual speakers of Gipuzkoan dialects participated in two picture naming tasks. We described their voicing system by measuring voice onset time (VOT) in both Gipuzkoan Basque and Spanish, and used linear mixed-effects models to investigate between-language production differences. Our results show for the first time that adult early bilinguals who speak two true-voicing languages produce language-specific VOT in ‘voiced’ plosives. This finding demonstrates that bilinguals’ phonetic systems during production are more fine-grained than previously assumed, and contributes to a deeper understanding of granularity in early bilingual phonetic systems.

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An Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of Word-Initial Stop Production by Young Simultaneous Mandarin- English Bilingual Children

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Comparison of VOTs in Mandarin–English bilingual children and corresponding monolingual children and adults

Comparison of VOTs in Mandarin–English bilingual children and corresponding monolingual children and adults

Bilinguals produce language-specific voice onset time in two true-voicing languages

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