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Feature generalization in Dutch–German bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production

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Author	Stoehr, Antje Benders, Titia Janet G. van Hell Fikkert, Paula
Copyright Year	2021
Abstract	Dutch and German employ voicing contrasts, but Dutch lacks the ‘voiced’ dorsal plosive /ɡ/. We exploited this accidental phonological gap, measuring the presence of prevoicing and voice onset time durations during speech production to determine (1) whether preliterate bilingual Dutch–German and monolingual Dutch-speaking children aged 3;6–6;0 years generalized voicing to /ɡ/ in Dutch; and (2) whether there was evidence for featural cross-linguistic influence from Dutch to German in bilingual children, testing monolingual German-speaking children as controls. Bilingual and monolingual children’s production of /ɡ/ provided partial evidence for feature generalization: in Dutch, both bilingual and monolingual children either recombined Dutch voicing and place features to produce /ɡ/, suggesting feature generalization, or resorted to producing familiar /k/, suggesting segment-level adaptation within their Dutch phonological system. In German, bilingual children’s production of /ɡ/ was influenced by Dutch although the Dutch phoneme inventory lacks /ɡ/. This suggests that not only segments but also voicing features can exert cross-linguistic influence. Taken together, phonological features appear to play a crucial role in aspects of bilingual and monolingual children’s speech production.
Related Links	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01427237211058937?download=true
Starting Page	101
Ending Page	123
Page Count	23
ISSN	01427237
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	42
Journal	First Language (FLA)
e-ISSN	17402344
DOI	10.1177/01427237211058937
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publications UK
Publisher Date	2021-11-29
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© The Author(s) 2021
Subject Keyword	simultaneous bilinguals preschoolers German Speech production Dutch phonological features cross-linguistic influence
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Linguistics and Language

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