Third language phonological acquisition: Understanding sound structure in a multilingual world

Wang, Di; Nance, Claire

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“…Previous studies on L3 phonological acquisition have identified several factors that might contribute to CLI (see Wang and Nance, 2023 for an overview), such as (perceived) typological similarity (Llama et al, 2010;Cabrelli and Pichan, 2021), and experience with L3 (Cal and Sypiańska, 2020). Many studies argue in favor of property-by-property transfer in L3 phonology.…”

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Learning and unlearning voicing assimilation

Bárkányi,

G. Kiss

2024

Front. Lang. Sci.

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This study investigates how postlexical phonological processes are acquired in multilingual speech, namely, how learners cope with conflicting demands in the production and perception of the voicing patterns in their non-native languages, what impact lexical knowledge has on learner behavior, and to what extent existing speech learning models can account for it. To investigate this, 14 Hungarian native speakers, proficient sequential learners of Spanish and English, took part in two types of experiment. The production experiments examined regressive voicing assimilation between obstruents and when the trigger was a sonorant consonant (presonorant voicing) word-internally and across word-boundary. At word level, we compared various lexical groups: non-cognates, double cognates and triple cognates (inhibitory, facilitative, and cognates with conflicting information). The perception experiments aimed to find out whether learners notice the voicing assimilations mentioned. The results showed that participants failed to learn presonorant voicing and failed to block regressive voicing assimilation despite perceiving the latter as linguistically relevant. Data also revealed that there is no direct link between perception and production, and that cognate status had a limited effect, but in triple cognates the primacy of the native language was dominant. Thus, it is concluded that in laryngeal postlexical processes the native language plays the primary role, neither the other non-native language, nor linguistic proximity seems to be decisive. Our data can be best accounted for by the Scalpel Model extended to phonological acquisition.

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Learning and unlearning voicing assimilation

Bárkányi,

G. Kiss

2024

Front. Lang. Sci.

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The third language imitation of Spanish rhotic-lateral contrast by Akan-English bilingual children and adults

Ahima,

Loyola,

Spinu

et al. 2023

J. of Speech Sci.

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This study explores the third language imitation of the Spanish rhotic-lateral contrast by Akan-English bilingual children and adults. Specifically, it examines this phenomenon, with respect to (i) first language transfer in the imitation of the Spanish rhotic-lateral contrast, (ii) the effect of orthographic input on the imitation of the rhotic-lateral contrast in Spanish as a third language, and (iii) the effect of age of acquisition with the inclusion of a comparison between children and adults. Whereas rhotics and laterals are contrastive in most varieties of Spanish and English, they are in free variation in Akan (Guerini, 2018). The participants in this study consisted of 20 Akan-English bilinguals between the ages of 8-10yrs and 18-55. The conditions included an imitation task with auditory input only and another with orthographic input. The results showed evidence of L1 transfer, a positive effect of orthography, and a better performance of children. This study has important implications as it provides data from an understudied population in the field of L2/L3 speech learning.

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Predicting Discrimination in L3 Portuguese by Hungarian Speakers: The Effect of Perceptual Overlap

Tavares,

Deme,

Correia

2024

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Perceptual overlap has been attested as significantly contributing to difficulties in L2 speech perception. The current study aims at investigating whether this effect is also observable in the context of L3, specifically in the perception of European Portuguese oral vowels by Hungarian listeners. We crossed the results of two experiments—a categorization task and a discrimination task—and found that perceptual overlap is also a significant factor in L3 perception. Furthermore, we compared different measures of perceptual overlap as predictors for discrimination abilities of L3 vowel contrasts. Namely, we compared perceptual overlap scores calculated on group means and scores based on individual results. None of the measures was conclusively more reliable than another in predicting differences in discrimination difficulties. However, accuracy in perception of EP contrasts or vowels absent from the Hungarian vocalic system was significantly lower than for the other vowels, suggesting that non-nativeness can cause difficulties in L3 perception. Additionally, participants who also reported knowledge of German performed more accurately in discrimination of contrasts that included the vowel [ɐ], a vowel absent from their L1 but present in the German vocalic system, indicating a positive effect of knowledge of languages previously acquired on L3 perception.

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Third language phonological acquisition: Understanding sound structure in a multilingual world

Cited by 3 publications

References 72 publications

Learning and unlearning voicing assimilation

Learning and unlearning voicing assimilation

The third language imitation of Spanish rhotic-lateral contrast by Akan-English bilingual children and adults

Predicting Discrimination in L3 Portuguese by Hungarian Speakers: The Effect of Perceptual Overlap

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