The Functional Origin of the Foreign Accent: Evidence From the Syllable-Frequency Effect in Bilingual Speakers

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作者
Alario, F. -Xavier [1 ,2 ]
Goslin, Jeremy [3 ]
Michel, Violaine [4 ]
Laganaro, Marina [4 ]
机构
[1] Aix Marseille Univ, Lab Psychol Cognit, Marseille, France
[2] CNRS, Marseille, France
[3] Univ Plymouth, Ctr Thinking & Language, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, England
[4] Univ Neuchatel, Inst Sci Langage, CH-2000 Neuchatel, Switzerland
关键词
language; bilingualism; phonology; speech production; FRENCH-ENGLISH BILINGUALS; SPEECH PRODUCTION; STOP CONSONANTS; LANGUAGES; REPRESENTATIONS; RECOGNITION; PHONOLOGY; SPANISH; WORDS;
D O I
10.1177/0956797609354725
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Individuals who speak more than one language often do so with a foreign accent in their second language. Previous investigations have focused on the acoustic phonetic properties of speech, showing how language-learning history shapes the occurrence of accent. By contrast, little is known about the phonological and phonetic representations that allow the production of each language within one speaker. We investigated this issue via the syllable-frequency effect, thought to index the retrieval of syllable-size representations during speech production. We tested French-Spanish early and late bilinguals in a task in which the materials' syllabic frequency in both languages was manipulated. The frequency of syllables in the nonspoken language affected performance only with late bilinguals. This is interpreted as evidence that syllabic representations are shared across languages in late bilinguals but are separate in early bilinguals. One of the functional origins of foreign accent in late bilinguals may be the retrieval of syllabic representations shared across languages.
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