LIGN 177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Categorical Perception, Vowel Length
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Perhaps infants" difficulties stemmed from one or more aspect of our stimuli that we were not able to measure, or a combination of differences. The discovery of which specific phonetic cues aid monolinguals and bilinguals could be a rich area for future study. Production delay: kehoe (2002: participants: german monolingual children, spanish monolingual children, and. G/s bilingual children: phonemic vowel length in german. [mi:te] rent: no such vowel, bilingual kids have a delay in mastering short/long vowel differentiation compared to monolingual kids. 2: participants: german monolingual children, spanish monolingual children, and. In german, about 67% of words have a singleton coda. Few place/manner restriction in terms of what can be a coda. 2: bilingual kids, produced codas in germain at similar proportions to monolingual. German speakers however, the percentage of spanish target codas produced by bilinguals substantially exceed that of spanish monolinguals.
