Vihman, Marilyn orcid.org/0000-0001-8912-4840 (2016) Prosodic structures and templates in bilingual phonological development. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. pp. 69-88. ISSN 1366-7289
Abstract
Bilingual children have long been held to have ‘separate linguistic systems’ from the start (e.g., Meisel, 2001). This paper challenges that assumption with data from five bilingual children’s first 100 words. Whereas the prosodic structures represented by a child’s words may or may not be differentiated by language, emergent phonological templates are not, the same patterns being deployed as more complex adult word forms are targeted in each language. Reliance on common (idiosyncratic) phonological templates for the two languages is ascribed to children’s experience with their own voice (in production) as well as with others’ speech. Both experimental studies and spontaneous cross-linguistic speech errors in adults and older children are cited to support the view that, for a bilingual, unconscious processing draws on both languages throughout the lifespan, which suggests that the emphasis on ‘separate systems’ (from the start or thereafter) may be misconceived.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | bilingual children ,exemplar model ,item learning ,bilingual children,prosodic structure,item learning,exemplar model,phonological template |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Language and Linguistic Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2016 12:40 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 12:29 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000790 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S1366728914000790 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105381 |
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