PSY315H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: English Americans, Attentional Control, Phonotactics
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Children used to be discouraged from learning spanish because it was thought that it would confuse a child learning english. What is confusing to the child? a)phonological system. Differences in rules of combination of sounds (phonotactics) Languages differ in how the sound is produced even if they more or less sound the same superficially. The difficulty in adapting to these factors in adult 2nd language acquisition is part of the basis for a foreign accent. Ex. difference between english [iy] vs [i] (feet vs fit) involves vowel duration, tongue position, and glide. Some evidence that sounds can be produced with language specific phonology by. Other evidence shows that the phonology of the more dominant language tends to be overused: words. But this may not be confusion but rather an inability to switch a language on and off readily. Some evidence for vocabulary delay in a given language, relative to monolinguals.
