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Two types of bilinguals – Two types of production contexts




AuthorsHenna Tamminen, Tomi Rautaoja, Maija S. Peltola

PublisherLatvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia

Publication year2017

JournalLinguistica Lettica

Journal acronymLL

Volume25

First page 109

Last page124

Web address http://www.lulavi.lv/linguistica-lettica

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/28549696


Abstract


Language
context affects different kinds of bilinguals differently at the preattentive
level in speech perception. Bilinguals from birth (balanced bilinguals) perceive
their languages in both language contexts similarly, which indicates that they have
one unified phonological system. In contrast, bilinguals who have learned their
second language in a classroom (dominant bilinguals) perceive speech according
to separate, language specific systems and have separate phonological systems
for the two languages. The present study focuses on speech production in
similar kinds of bilinguals. We used three different language contexts,
monolingual Finnish and Swedish and a bilingual context, in speech production
tasks. Language context effects are seen in speech production of both bilingual
groups. The difference in mother tongue identity is also shown as the dominant
bilinguals differ from the balanced bilinguals in the production of Swedish
vowels between monolingual and bilingual language contexts.


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