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Kaiser, Georg A. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
In their keynote contribution, Poplack, Zentz & Dion (henceforth PZD; Poplack, Zentz & Dion, 2011, this issue) propose an interesting "scientific test of convergence" (under section heading: "Introduction") which contains criteria to check whether a particular feature in a given language in contact with another one is…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Form Classes (Languages), French, Foreign Countries
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Sundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Baum, Shari – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
This study investigated acoustic-phonetics of coronal stop production by adult simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers of Canadian English (CE) and Canadian French (CF). Differences in the phonetics of CF and CE include voicing and place of articulation distinctions. CE has a two-way voicing distinction (in syllable initial position)…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Monolingualism, Acoustics, Bilingualism