Prosodic interaction in Cantonese-English bilingual children’s speech production

IF 1.8 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Jonathan Him Nok Lee, R. Lai, S. Matthews, Virginia Yip
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This corpus-based study investigates intonation patterns in the production of Cantonese by Cantonese-English bilingual children. We examine the intonation patterns in eight simultaneous bilingual children acquiring a tonal (Cantonese) and an intonational language (English) from 2;0 to 3;0. Two intonation patterns are observed in all the bilingual children studied: high pitch followed by a fall (including H_H*L% and H_L*L%) and low pitch followed by a rise (including L_H*H% and L_L*H%), in which English-like intonation is applied to Cantonese and code-mixed utterances. They illustrate cross-linguistic influence in prosody from English in the bilingual children’s early phonological development. Language dominance, use of sentence-final particles, and the children’s grammatical complexity are found to be significant predictors for the production of bilingual intonation. First, the more dominant the child is in Cantonese, the less bilingual intonation is produced in Cantonese and code-mixed utterances. Second, bilingual intonation is significantly more likely to be produced in utterances with sentence-final particles than without. Third, the greater the child’s grammatical complexity, the lower the predicted probability of producing bilingual intonation.
粤语-英语双语儿童言语产生中的韵律互动
本研究以语料库为基础,探讨粤英双语儿童粤语的语调模式。我们研究了8名同时学习双语的儿童的语调模式,这些儿童在2;0到3;0期间习得一种声调语言(粤语)和一种语调语言(英语)。所有双语儿童的语调都有两种模式:高音调后下降(包括H_H*L%和H_L*L%)和低音调后上升(包括L_H*H%和L_L*H%),其中类似英语的语调适用于广东话和混合语码的话语。它们说明了双语儿童早期语音发展过程中英语对韵律的跨语言影响。语言优势、句末助词的使用和儿童的语法复杂性是双语语调产生的重要预测因素。首先,粤语越占主导地位的孩子,粤语和混合语码的话语中产生的双语语调越少。第二,双语语调在有句末助词的话语中比没有助词的话语中更容易产生。第三,孩子的语法复杂程度越高,预测产生双语语调的概率越低。
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Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism
Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
CiteScore
3.20
自引率
9.10%
发文量
24
期刊介绍: LAB provides an outlet for cutting-edge, contemporary studies on bilingualism. LAB assumes a broad definition of bilingualism, including: adult L2 acquisition, simultaneous child bilingualism, child L2 acquisition, adult heritage speaker competence, L1 attrition in L2/Ln environments, and adult L3/Ln acquisition. LAB solicits high quality articles of original research assuming any cognitive science approach to understanding the mental representation of bilingual language competence and performance, including cognitive linguistics, emergentism/connectionism, generative theories, psycholinguistic and processing accounts, and covering typical and atypical populations.
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