Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology

by Dani Dyer (Editor), Dominic d'Arcy (Editor), Mehmet Yavas (Editor)

Overview

Bilingual contact in which speakers use their two languages in daily life is a very common phenomenon and within this Romance-Germanic bilingualism is one of the most widespread contacts. The chapters in this book investigate several phonetic and phonological issues that are in contrast between 4 Germanic languages (English, German, Danish, and Swedish- with more than 500 million speakers) and 4 Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian - with more than 700 million speakers). Contributions from original empirical research cover several phonotactic, segmental, and suprasegmental conflicting situations between Germanic and Romance languages. The first three chapters address cross-linguistic interaction in the development of aspects of prosody in young bilinguals. The following five chapters focus on cross-language interaction in adult bilinguals; topic investigated include the voice onset time, acquisition of laterals, and the production and perception of vowels. The next three chapters examine the representation and/or instantiation of phonological knowledge in the speech of L2 users, which are followed by two chapters that are concerned with linguistic and extralinguistic factors that influence L2 learning. The volume concludes with a look into sociophonetics of voice onset time, intonation and labial fricatives in Spanish-English bilinguals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781792827
Publisher:	Equinox Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2017
Series:	Studies in Phonetics and Phonology Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mehmet Yavas is a professor of linguistics at Florida International University. Margaret M. Kehoe lectures at the University of Geneva as well as works as a speech-language pathologist with bilingual children. Walcir Cardoso is an associate professor of Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Second Language in the Department of Education at Concordia University.

Table of Contents

. Introduction Mehmet Yavas, Margaret M. Kehoe, and Walcir Cardoso 2. Vowel Reduction in German-Spanish Bilinguals Margaret M. Kehoe and Conxita Lleo, University of Hamburg 3. Cross-language Influence in the Production of French-English Bilingual Children: Separation or Interaction? Christelle Dodane, Paul-Valery University, and Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, Poitiers University/Paris Descartes University 4. The Initial Development of Voice Onset Time in Early Successive French-Swedish Bilinguals Frida Splendido, Univdersity of Lund 5. Voice Onset Time in German-Italian Simultaneous Bilinguals: Evidence on Crosslanguage Influence and Markedness Tanja Kupisch, University of Konstanz, and Conxita Lleo 6. Production of English Laterals by Early Sequential Spanish-English Bilinguals Mehmet Yavas 7. Production and Perception of Danish Front Rounded /y/: A Comparison of Ultimate Attainment in Native Spanish and Native English Speakers Camilla Linn Garibaldi, Aarhus University, and Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University 8. Interactions between Native and Non-native Vowels in French-Danish Contact: Production Training Study Natalia Kartushina, University of Geneva 9. Onset Markedness in Portuguese-English Contact Robert Carlisle, California State University, Bakersfield 10. Medial Coda and Final Stops in Brazilian Portuguese-English Contact Paul John, University of Quebec at Trois Riviere, and Walcir Cardoso 11. Acquisition of English Stress in French-English Contact Guilherme Garcia, McGill University, and Natalia Guzzo, Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul 12. Factors Affecting L2 Learning across the Lifespan: Spanish Learners of English Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Brigham Young University 13. English Sonorant Codas in a Brazilian Portuguese-English Bilingual Context Rosane Silveira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, and Alison Roberto Goncalves, Federal University of Santa Catarina 14. The Sociophonetics of Spanish-English Contact in the U.S. Barbara Bullock, University of Texas at Austin, and Daniel Olson, Purdue University