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SUMMARY:Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonologi
 cal development of bilingual French-speaking children - Margaret Kehoe\, F
 aculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (FAPSE)\, University of Geneva
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CONTACT:Dr Calbert Graham
DESCRIPTION:This study focuses on three different areas of phonetic-phonol
 ogical development (Voice Onset Time\, syllable structure\, and word proso
 dy) in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children\, aged 2\;6 to 6
 \;0 years. The aim of the study is to determine whether bilinguals differ 
 from monolinguals and if so\, can differences be explained by the phonolog
 ical characteristics of the bilinguals’ home languages. Specifically\, w
 e examine whether bilingual children produce target voiceless stops with l
 onger VOTs and target voiced stops with less lead voicing than monolingual
  children\; whether they show delay or acceleration in the acquisition of 
 word-final codas and clusters\, and whether they exhibit different duratio
 n and f0 ratios between stressed and unstressed syllables in their disylla
 bic word productions than monolinguals. Results show evidence of cross-lin
 guistic interaction in the youngest set of children (aged 2\;6) in the are
 a of syllable structure and word prosody. These effects were only marginal
 ly present in the older children. There were no monolingual-bilingual diff
 erences in VOT at any age. In the discussion\, we consider why certain are
 as of phonetic-phonological development are more susceptible to cross-ling
 uistic influence than others and consider the relevance of the results for
  models of cross-linguistic interaction\n
LOCATION:English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07\, 9 West Road\, Sidgwick Si
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