First language attrition in voice onset times in Anglophone expatriates residing in the Czech Republic

Sučková, Magda

doi:10.5817/bse2020-2-3

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“…In his late German alveolar productions, a significant lengthening of VOT was identified, which indicates a shift of his L1 short-lag VOT categories towards English long-lag VOT. These results confirm the findings of previous studies showing that L2-immersed late bilinguals' voiceless categories are likely to be affected by attrition processes in the direction of L2 norms as a result of L2 learning experience (Flege and Hillenbrand 1984;Major 1992;Mayr et al 2012;Stoehr et al 2017;Sučková 2020).…”

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“…While a considerable amount of research has explored the acquisition of late-acquired L2 VOT categories (see above), comparatively few studies so far have investigated attrition of VOT in the L1 of late L2 acquirers being long-term residents in an L2 country (Flege and Hillenbrand 1984;Major 1992;Mayr et al 2012;Stoehr et al 2017;Sučková 2020). Overall, findings reveal that VOT is indeed sensitive to be affected by modifications due to L2 learning experience; these modifications, however, have been shown to be more prevalent in voiceless plosives while voiced targets seem to be less likely to undergo attrition (Mayr et al 2012;Stoehr et al 2017).…”

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Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Mennen

2021

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The purpose of this investigation was to trace first (L1) and second language (L2) segmental speech development in the Austrian German–English late bilingual Arnold Schwarzenegger over a period of 40 years, which makes it the first study to examine a bilingual’s speech development over several decades in both their languages. To this end, acoustic measurements of voice onset time (VOT) durations of word-initial plosives (Study 1) and formant frequencies of the first and second formant of Austrian German and English monophthongs (Study 2) were conducted using speech samples collected from broadcast interviews. The results of Study 1 showed a merging of Schwarzenegger’s German and English voiceless plosives in his late productions as manifested in a significant lengthening of VOT duration in his German plosives, and a shortening of VOT duration in his English plosives, closer to L1 production norms. Similar findings were evidenced in Study 2, revealing that some of Schwarzenegger’s L1 and L2 vowel categories had moved closer together in the course of L2 immersion. These findings suggest that both a bilingual’s first and second language accent is likely to develop and reorganize over time due to dynamic interactions between the first and second language system.

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Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Kornder

Mennen

2021

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“…O aspecto investigado, o Voice Onset Time (VOT), é caracterizado como o intervalo de tempo entre a explosão de uma consoante plosiva e o início da pulsão glotal (anterior ou posterior à explosão) (LISKER; ABRAMSON, 1964;ABRAMSON;WHALEN, 2017) HILLENBRAND, 1984;COHEN, 2004;LLAMA, 2008;LLAMA et al, 2010;KUPSKE, 2016;LLAMA;LÓPEZ-MORELOS, 2016;ALVES;2019;SUČKOVÁ, 2020), a partir do estudo desse aspecto fonético-fonológico, podemos observar questões referentes à multidirecionalidade da transferência, à adaptabilidade e à capacidade de auto-organização da língua. Este trabalho tem, portanto, a intenção de prover insumos empíricos e teóricos para a compreensão desses aspectos, que podem, por sua vez, contribuir para o ensino de línguas adicionais e para o entendimento do processo de desenvolvimento das línguas adicionais à luz da TSDC.…”

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Considerações dinâmicas acerca do desenvolvimento de línguas adicionais: uma análise de padrões de Voice Onset Time em Inglês-L2 e Francês-L3 produzidos por aprendizes brasileiros em contexto de instrução fonética

Schereschewsky

Alves

2021

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À luz de uma visão de língua como um Sistema Dinâmico Complexo (VERSPOOR; DE BOT; LOWIE, 2011, entre outros), entende-se que mudanças em um subcomponente do sistema linguístico podem acarretar mudanças nos outros elementos e também no sistema como um todo. O presente estudo investiga as mudanças nos padrões de produção de Voice Onset Time do subsistema de Inglês-L2 e suas implicações no subsistema de Francês-L3 de cinco aprendizes brasileiros de Inglês-L2 e Francês-L3 como línguas adicionais. Esse estudo longitudinal foi conduzido no decorrer de 3 meses (12 pontos de coleta) e contou com uma intervenção de seis sessões de instrução fonética em Inglês-L2 entre as semanas 4 e 9. Análises de correlações móveis (moving correlations) (cf. VERSPOOR; VAN DIJK, 2011) em janelas móveis de 7 e 3 pontos trazem insumos empíricos acerca da inter-relação das línguas adicionais num contexto multilíngue.

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Longitudinal study of phonetic drift in L1 speech of late Czech-French bilinguals

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Bořil²

2023

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This study investigates temporal development of phonetic drift (i.e., when L1 pronunciation is affected by acquiring an L2 language) in the L1 speech of four Czech university students (two female and two male) who went to study in Toulouse as part of the Erasmus programme. Having started studying L2 French at the age of twelve to sixteen, they are considered the so-called Czech-French late bilinguals. The subjects were recorded reading out a Czech text and producing semi-spontaneous speech in three sessions – immediately after their arrival, and then at the end of the first and the third month of their stay in France. Based on acoustic analyses, we statistically evaluated the formant frequencies of vowels, the spectral moments of the fricatives /ɦ/ and /x/, and the production frequency of schwa in the word-final position, which is a distinctive pronunciation feature for Toulouse French. Even though speech and its development are highly individual, we were able to witness certain pronunciation shifts regarding all the examined phones. However, the majority of statistically significant shifts were linked to the formant values of vowels.

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First language attrition in voice onset times in Anglophone expatriates residing in the Czech Republic

Cited by 4 publications

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Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Considerações dinâmicas acerca do desenvolvimento de línguas adicionais: uma análise de padrões de Voice Onset Time em Inglês-L2 e Francês-L3 produzidos por aprendizes brasileiros em contexto de instrução fonética

Longitudinal study of phonetic drift in L1 speech of late Czech-French bilinguals

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