Published In
Bilingualism: Language & Cognition
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Subjects
Children -- Language, Language acquisition, Phonology (Grammar), Bilingualism
Abstract
Spanish phonological development was examined in six sequential bilingual children at the point of contact with English and eight months later. We explored effects of the English vowel and consonant inventory on Spanish. Children showed a significant increase in consonant cluster accuracy and in vowel errors. These emerging sequential bilingual children showed effects of English on their first language, Spanish. Cross-linguistic transfer did not affect all properties of the phonology equally. Negative transfer may occur in specific areas where the second language is more complex, requiring reorganization of the existing system, as in the transition from the Spanish five-vowel to the English eleven-vowel system.
DOI
10.1017/S1366728908003994
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10961
Citation Details
Christina E., G., Elizabeth D., P., Davis, B. L., & Kester, E. S. (2009). Effects on L1 during early acquisition of L2: Speech changes in Spanish at first English contact. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 12(2), 259-272. doi:10.1017/S1366728908003994
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Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Speech and Hearing Science Commons
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