Cross-Language Transfer and Attentional Control in Early Bilingual Speech

Autor/inn/en	Verbeek, Lisa; Vissers, Constance; Blumenthal, Mirjam; Verhoeven, Ludo
Titel	Cross-Language Transfer and Attentional Control in Early Bilingual Speech
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 65 (2022) 2, S.450-468 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Verbeek, Lisa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Bilingualism; Turkish; Indo European Languages; Preschool Children; Monolingualism; Phonemes; Interference (Language); Attention Control; Foreign Countries; Accuracy; Bilingual Students; Speech Skills; Speech Communication; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Bilingualismus; Türkisch; Indoeuropäisch; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Fonem; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Ausland; Mündliche Leistung; Sprachfertigkeit; Niederlande
Abstract	Purpose: This study investigated the roles of cross-language transfer of first language (L1) and attentional control in second-language (L2) speech perception and production of sequential bilinguals, taking phonological overlap into account. Method: Twenty-five monolingual Dutch-speaking and 25 sequential bilingual Turkish-Dutch-speaking 3- and 4-year-olds were tested using picture identification tasks for speech perception in L1 Turkish and L2 Dutch, single-word tasks for speech production in L1 and L2, and a visual search task for attentional control. Phonological overlap was manipulated by dividing the speech tasks into subsets of phonemes that were either shared or unshared between languages. Results: In Dutch speech perception and production, monolingual children obtained higher accuracies than bilingual peers. Bilinguals showed equal performance in L1 and L2 perception but scored higher on L1 than on L2 production. For speech perception of shared phonemes, linear regression analyses revealed no direct effects of attention and L1 on L2. For speech production of shared phonemes, attention and L1 directly affected L2. When exploring unshared phonemes, direct effects of attentional control on L2 were demonstrated not only for speech production but also for speech perception. Conclusions: The roles of attentional control and cross-language transfer on L2 speech are different for shared and unshared phonemes. Whereas L2 speech production of shared phonemes is also supported by cross-language transfer of L1, L2 speech perception and production of unshared phonemes benefit from attentional control only. This underscores the clinical importance of considering phonological overlap and supporting attentional control when assisting young sequential bilinguals' L2 development. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01