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Cross-Linguistic Contributions of Acoustic Cues and Prosodic Awareness to First and Second Language Vocabulary Knowledge
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Chung, Wei-Lun; Jarmulowicz, Linda; Bidelman, Gavin M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Several studies have revealed that prosody contributes to reading acquisition. However, the relation between awareness of prosodic patterns and different facets of language ability (e.g., vocabulary knowledge) in school-age children remains unclear. This study measured awareness of prosodic patterns using non-speech and speech stimuli.…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Cues, Suprasegmentals, Reading Ability
Bilingual Exposure Might Enhance L1 Development in Cantonese-English Bilingual Autistic Children: Evidence from the Production of Focus
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Haoyan Ge; Albert Kwing Lok Lee; Hoi Kwan Yuen; Fang Liu; Virginia Yip – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
This study investigated bilingualism effects on the production of focus in 5- to 9-year-old Cantonese-English bilingual autistic children's L1 Cantonese, compared to their monolingual autistic peers as well as monolingual and bilingual typically developing children matched in nonverbal IQ, working memory, receptive vocabulary and maternal…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Bilingualism, Native Language, Second Language Learning
The Perception and Production of Lexical Stress among Early Spanish-English Bilingual Children
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Nicole Marie Rodriguez – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The present dissertation analyzed speech production and perception in early heritage Spanish-English bilingual children. Specifically, I investigated how perception and production of lexical stress develops in bilingual children. Current models of second language (L2) speech perception do not include heritage bilinguals or suprasegmental aspects…
Descriptors: Phonology, Spanish, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)
The Effect of Age of Acquisition and Second-Language Experience on Segments and Prosody: A Cross-Sectional Study of Korean Bilinguals' English and Korean Production
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Oh, Grace Eunhae – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The current dissertation investigated segmental and prosodic aspects of first- (L1) and second-language (L2) speech production. Forty Korean-speaking adults and children varying in L2 experience (6 months-inexperienced vs. 6 years-experienced) as well as twenty age-matched native English speaking adults and children participated. Experienced…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interaction, Speech, Vowels
Learning Prosody and Fluency Characteristics of Second Language Speech: The Effect of Experience on Child Learners' Acquisition of Five Suprasegmentals
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Trofimovich, Pavel; Baker, Wendy – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
This study examined second language (L2) experience effects on children's acquisition of fluency-(speech rate, frequency, and duration of pausing) and prosody-based (stress timing, peak alignment) suprasegmentals. Twenty Korean children (age of arrival in the United States = 7-11 years, length of US residence = 1 vs. 11 years) and 20 age-matched…
Descriptors: Sentences, Suprasegmentals, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Discourse Analysis of Adult-Child Conversations: The Comparison of L1 and L2 Input in Japanese.
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Okuyama, Yoshiko – 1996
Two related studies investigated (1) the extent to which native language input to five Japanese children was varied based on the children's age, and (2) the effectiveness of adult Japanese second language input to a three-year-old American child during a one-month period in Japan. In the first study, interactions of adult-child dyads were compared…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Comparative Analysis