Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism

• Other Authors: Amengual, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Language; second language acquisition; phonology; discrimination; cross-linguistic assimilation; obstruent; affricate; fricative; dialect; English; Spanish; L1 attrition; speech; foreign accent; accent perception; bilingual; teacher; bilingualism; phonetics; language mode; cross-linguistic influence; transfer; voice onset time; global accent rating; American English; Russian; voicing; classroom learning; first language drift; perceptual learning; individual differences; phonetic sensitivity; crosslinguistic influence; Korean; laryngeal contrast; vowel inventory; heritage bilingualism; early bilingualism; speech production; multilingualism; third language acquisition; speech perception; rhotics; final obstruent devoicing; Korean Americans; California Vowel Shift; second language phonology; immigrant minority speakers; sound change; Spanish-English bilinguals; gender; vowels; vowel centralization; vowel sequences; sociophonetics; competence; fricative epithesis; vowel devoicing; center of gravity; French; acquisition; agentivity; directionality; fricative (de)voicing; Catalan-Spanish contact; intonation; language contact; language attitudes; social factors; Basque; Perceptual Assimilation Model; second language speech learning; English /r/ and /l/; Japanese; English as a second language; categorical perception; compromise VOT; voice timing; performance mismatches; dynamic phonetic interactions; acoustic similarity; perceptual similarity; non-native discrimination; non-native categorisation
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This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empir...