Romance-Germanic bilingual phonology / edited by Mehmet Yava, Margaret Kehoe and Walcir Cardoso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yavaş, Mehmet, editor.

Kehoe, Margaret, editor.

Cardoso, Walcir, editor.

Series:

Studies in phonetics and phonology.

Studies in Phonetics and Phonology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bilingualism--Psychological aspects.

Bilingualism.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Phonology, Comparative.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Romance languages--Phonology.

Romance languages.

Germanic languages--Phonology.

Germanic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Equinox Publishing Ltd., [2017]

Summary:

Bilingual contact, whereby speakers use two languages in their daily lives, is a very common phenomenon. Among such contacts, Romance-Germanic bilingualism is one of the most widespread. This book investigates several phonetic and phonological issues that are in contrast between four Germanic languages (English, German, Danish and Swedish ? more than 500 million speakers) and four Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian ? more than 700 million speakers). The chapters cover several well-established phonotactic, segmental and suprasegmental conflicting situations between Germanic and Romance languages: cross-language interaction among young bilinguals as well as adults; the representation and/or instantiation of phonological knowledge in the speech of L2 users; and the sociophonetics of certain segmental and suprasegmental issues in bilinguals. Based on substantial original empirical research, published here for the first time, this volume represents the most current thinking on the topics covered, and provides essential reading for students, professionals and researchers in the fields of Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, Psycholinguistics, Applied Phonetics and Phonology, Romance Linguistics and Germanic Linguistics.

Contents:

Introduction / Mehmet Yava, Margaret M. Kehoe, and Walcir Cardoso

2. Vowel Reduction in German-Spanish Bilinguals / Margaret M. Kehoe and Conxita Lle, University of Hamburg

3. Cross-language Influence in the Production of French-English Bilingual Children: Separation or Interaction? / Christelle Dodane, Paul-Valery University, and Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, Poitiers University/Paris Descartes University

4. The Initial Development of Voice Onset Time in Early Successive French-Swedish Bilinguals / Frida Splendido, Univdersity of Lund

5. Voice Onset Time in German-Italian Simultaneous Bilinguals: Evidence on Crosslanguage Influence and Markedness / Tanja Kupisch, University of Konstanz, and Conxita Lle

Production of english laterals by early sequential Spanish-English bilinguals / Mehmet Yava

Production and perception of Danish front rounded / y/: A Comparison of Ultimate Attainment in Native Spanish and Native English Speakers / Camilla Linn Garibaldi, Aarhus University, and Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University

8. Interactions between Native and Non-native Vowels in French-Danish Contact: Production Training Study / Natalia Kartushina, University of Geneva

9. Onset Markedness in Portuguese-English Contact / Robert Carlisle, California State University, Bakersfield

10. Medial Coda and Final Stops in Brazilian Portuguese-English Contact / Paul John, University of Quebec at Trois Riviere, and Walcir Cardoso

11. Acquisition of English Stress in French-English Contact / Guilherme Garcia, Mcgill University, and Natalia Guzzo, Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul

12. Factors affecting L2 learning across the lifespan: Spanish learners of English / Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Brigham Young University

13. English Sonorant Codas in a Brazilian Portuguese-English Bilingual Context / Rosane Silveira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, and Alison Roberto Gonalves, Federal University of Santa Catarina

14. The Sociophonetics of Spanish-English Contact in the U.S. / Barbara Bullock, University of Texas at Austin, and Daniel Olson, Purdue University

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ISBN:

9781487568894

1487568894

9781781795064

1781795061