Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech最新文献

Code-switching in the speech of a balanced infant bilingual and early talker 平衡婴儿双语和早期说话者言语中的代码转换

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.22392

Photini Coutsougera

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Listen-and-repeat training of non-native vowel quality 非母语元音质量的听力重复训练

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.26127

Katja Haapanen, Antti Saloranta, Kimmo U Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Lannie Uwu-khaeb, P. Alku, Maija S. Peltola

{"title":"Listen-and-repeat training of non-native vowel quality","authors":"Katja Haapanen, Antti Saloranta, Kimmo U Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Lannie Uwu-khaeb, P. Alku, Maija S. Peltola","doi":"10.1558/jmbs.26127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.26127","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigated how listen-and-repeat training affects the production of non-native (Swedish) vowels /y/ and /u/ by speakers of different Namibian languages. Seventeen speakers, who did not have /y/ or /u/ categories in their L1, participated in the experiment. Training effects were measured with acoustic analysis and an identification task performed by 40 proficient Swedish speakers, to see whether the acoustic quality and the perceptual salience of the speakers’ non-native production evolved during training. We expected the speakers’ production to change as a function of training, and the change to be reflected on the vowel formant values and the identification task. The results showed that the speakers produced /u/ close to the trained target already in the first session, but changed their production away from the target after the first training. The speakers’ production of /y/ did not change significantly. The speakers did not reach a perceivable spectral difference between the two non-native vowels. The participants’ productions remained inconsistent throughout the experiment. There was great inter-speaker variation, which could not be accounted for by the speakers’ language backgrounds.","PeriodicalId":73840,"journal":{"name":"Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech","volume":"16 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141104495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The relationship between executive function, age of L2 acquisition and speech disfluencies in bilinguals 双语者的执行功能、学习第二语言的年龄与言语不流畅之间的关系

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.24246

A. Choo, Sara Ashley Smith, Stephanie Seitz

{"title":"The relationship between executive function, age of L2 acquisition and speech disfluencies in bilinguals","authors":"A. Choo, Sara Ashley Smith, Stephanie Seitz","doi":"10.1558/jmbs.24246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.24246","url":null,"abstract":"Disfluencies signal errors in speech processes. Research in typically fluent monolinguals indicates a correlation between disfluencies and specific executive function (EF), including cognitive flexibility, inhibitory control, working memory (WM), and attention. However, these relationships have not been systematically explored in bilinguals. This study investigates the relationship between these EF components, age of language acquisition and disfluencies in bilinguals. Two types of disfluencies were examined: stalling, where articulation is delayed until the speech plan is ready, and advancing, that is, the articulation of incomplete speech plans. A total of 120 English speech samples based on simulated job interviews from 20 typically fluent adult Spanish-English bilinguals were transcribed and coded for disfluencies. The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Digit span was used to measure cognitive flexibility/inhibitory control, and the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function Color-Word Interference Test was used to assess WM/attention. Findings indicate correlations between stalling disfluencies and cognitive flexibility/inhibitory control, advancing disfluencies and WM/attention, and age of acquisition and both stalling and advancing disfluencies.","PeriodicalId":73840,"journal":{"name":"Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech","volume":"37 25","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141103945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Variability in English-Spanish bilingual phonotactics 英语-西班牙语双语音韵学的变异性

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.24641

Katerina Tetzloff

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Implementing recommended approaches to assessing multilingual children’s speech 实施建议的多语言儿童语音评估方法

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.24494

Pauline van der Straten Waillet, Brigitte Charlier, Kathryn M. Crowe, Cécile Colin

{"title":"Implementing recommended approaches to assessing multilingual children’s speech","authors":"Pauline van der Straten Waillet, Brigitte Charlier, Kathryn M. Crowe, Cécile Colin","doi":"10.1558/jmbs.24494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.24494","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional approaches to assessing speech production are not appropriate for the diagnosis of speech sound disorders (SSD) in multilingual children. This study explored the implementation of recommended approaches to assessing the speech production of multilingual children in a French-speaking context. The speech production of 20 multilingual and 20 monolingual children aged 4-6 years was examined using a standardised naming task, parental ratings of intelligibility, and parental concern about speech development. We compared the diagnostic outcomes for monolingual and multilingual children using the norm-referenced approach and a criterion-referenced approach, based on percentage of consonant correct (PCC). We then examined the diagnostic outcomes for the 20 multilingual children using the recommended converging evidence approach (considering multiple measures). Results confirmed that the norm-referenced approach is not appropriate for French-speaking multilingual children, leading to an overdiagnosis of SSD. The converging evidence approach allowed for more informed and more nuanced diagnostic decisions for multilingual children.","PeriodicalId":73840,"journal":{"name":"Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech","volume":"23 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141106280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Screening the narrative skills of Hungarian kindergarteners by dynamic assessment 通过动态评估筛查匈牙利幼儿园儿童的叙事能力

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.23908

Ágnes Jordanidisz, Judit Bóna, T. Vakula

{"title":"Screening the narrative skills of Hungarian kindergarteners by dynamic assessment","authors":"Ágnes Jordanidisz, Judit Bóna, T. Vakula","doi":"10.1558/jmbs.23908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23908","url":null,"abstract":"Narrative skills are prerequisites of successful school achievement and contribute to other aspects of cognitive and language development (Paul & Smith, 1993). Creating narratives requires the simultaneous activation of linguistic and cognitive abilities such as attentional engagement (van Oers, 2007). Size of vocabulary as well as expressive and receptive grammatical abilities also affect the complexity of the produced narrative. Dynamic Assessment (DA) offers a holistic picture regarding the abilities of children. After assessing both the initial and the final state, assessors calculate the gain of the learning phase (Karpov & Tzuriel, 2009). The aim of the research was to determine the effect of different interventions during the learning phase of the dynamic methods used for assessing the narrative skills of kindergarteners. Altogether, 50 Hungarian-speaking kindergarteners (age 6) participated in the research, in three groups. DA was used to measure their storytelling skills. Their first and second narratives based on a picture series were recorded and analyzed. The protocol of the DA was developed by the research team. The recorded material was analyzed statistically (SPSS 20) in relation to linguistic complexity, cohesion, and comprehension. The results proved our hypothesis: children’s narratives became more complex after both interventions, but in different ways. Facilitating questions improved all examined areas of the narratives, while the effect of a sample story was limited to cohesion and comprehension.","PeriodicalId":73840,"journal":{"name":"Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech","volume":"171 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140480354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Early mixing in a Spanish-English simultaneous bilingual in a Japanese context at age 2;4 在日语环境中学习西班牙语和英语的同声传译，2;4 岁时出现早期混合现象

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.23536

Rebekka Eckhaus

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Cajun French phonologies in Louisiana today 当今路易斯安那州的卡琼法语语音学

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.26918

Elena Babatsouli

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Morpho-syntactic structure of code-switched sentences produced by Albanian bilingual speakers 阿尔巴尼亚语双语者所用代码转换句子的形态句法结构

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.23497

Festa Shabani, Milote Sadiku, Shkumbin Munishi

{"title":"Morpho-syntactic structure of code-switched sentences produced by Albanian bilingual speakers","authors":"Festa Shabani, Milote Sadiku, Shkumbin Munishi","doi":"10.1558/jmbs.23497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23497","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to analyze the structure of code-switched sentences uttered by Albanian bilingual students. It examines the predictions made by two theoretical viewpoints, namely Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Frame (MLF) and MacSwan’s approach within the Minimalist Program (MP). The students were observed in informal environments within Prishtina international school settings, such as during recess time, on the playground, etc. Tape recordings of the conversations were used to record this naturalistic data, which was then transcribed. In particular, examples from the Albanian/English pair were analyzed, and the MLF and MP predictions regarding combinatorial possibilities were tested. The findings show that our data can only partially be accounted for by the MLF and MP approaches. Switching is mainly unidirectional, with insertions from English into an Albanian syntactic frame. Determiners, such as demonstrative pronouns, indefinite pronouns, adverbs of quantity, as well as copular verbs, auxiliary verbs, and clitics, come from the Matrix Language (ML), complying with the MLF model. However, violations of the MLF model are encountered as well, such as the non-occurrence of stem/affix switching, the occurrence of bare forms, and Embedded Language (EL) islands not always constituting the maximal projection of the phrase, which are further described and predicted in MP model. The paper provides evidence that neither MLF nor MP are able to adequately account for the possible combinations in the mixed clause. According to what the literature to date indicates, integrating the approaches rather than using each one individually results in a better understanding of the grammar of code-switching.","PeriodicalId":73840,"journal":{"name":"Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech","volume":"165 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140484147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Beyond accuracy 超越准确性

Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI: 10.1558/jmbs.23513

Magdalena Grose-Hodge, Ewa Dąbrowska, Dagmar Divjak

{"title":"Beyond accuracy","authors":"Magdalena Grose-Hodge, Ewa Dąbrowska, Dagmar Divjak","doi":"10.1558/jmbs.23513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23513","url":null,"abstract":"The language of Heritage Speakers (HS), or of early bilinguals of a minority language, is often seen as incomplete or less developed than that of Monolingual Speakers (MS). This study investigates whether 7- to 9-year-old English/Polish HS can be distinguished from MS in terms of linguistic skills when complexity and fluency are focal rather than accuracy. Data from 78 participants shows no significant differences between HS and MS in fluency on an overall measure in either of the languages, although HS produce more fillers and repetitions. On complexity measures, the results for English were similar across groups for Mean Length of T-Unit, but there was a statistically significant difference in Polish, with HS achieving higher values. On a more specific measure of syntactic complexity (Subordination Index), HS achieved higher scores in both languages. There were no significant differences for Lexical Diversity. Corresponding measures were positively correlated across languages, suggesting that the L1 does not impede L2 achievement. Overall, we observed substantial overlap between the groups, with the vast majority of HS falling within the MS norms and the MS falling within the HS norms. This emphasises the need to move away from the deficit approach towards HS.","PeriodicalId":73840,"journal":{"name":"Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech","volume":"150 35","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140484784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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