Language-independent talker-specificity in first-language and second-language speech production by bilingual talkers: L1 speaking rate predicts L2 speaking rate
| Autor: | Ann R. Bradlow, Midam Kim, Michael Blasingame |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Speech Communication Speech production medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent Acoustics and Ultrasonics Voice Quality Acoustics First language Multilingualism Context (language use) Audiology Speech Acoustics 050105 experimental psychology Young Adult Speech Production Measurement Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Phonetics medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 060201 languages & linguistics 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Variation (linguistics) 0602 languages and literature Female Psychology Spoken language |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.4976044 |
| Popis: | Second-language (L2) speech is consistently slower than first-language (L1) speech, and L1 speaking rate varies within- and across-talkers depending on many individual, situational, linguistic, and sociolinguistic factors. It is asked whether speaking rate is also determined by a language-independent talker-specific trait such that, across a group of bilinguals, L1 speaking rate significantly predicts L2 speaking rate. Two measurements of speaking rate were automatically extracted from recordings of read and spontaneous speech by English monolinguals (n = 27) and bilinguals from ten L1 backgrounds (n = 86): speech rate (syllables/second), and articulation rate (syllables/second excluding silent pauses). Replicating prior work, L2 speaking rates were significantly slower than L1 speaking rates both across-groups (monolinguals' L1 English vs bilinguals' L2 English), and across L1 and L2 within bilinguals. Critically, within the bilingual group, L1 speaking rate significantly predicted L2 speaking rate, suggesting that a significant portion of inter-talker variation in L2 speech is derived from inter-talker variation in L1 speech, and that individual variability in L2 spoken language production may be best understood within the context of individual variability in L1 spoken language production. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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