Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike

It is well known that multilingual speakers’ nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker’s accent? Such difficulties are...

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Authors: Goldrick, Matthew, Runnqvist, Elin, Costa, Albert, 1970-
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Publication Date:2014
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Keyword:Bilingualism
Psycholinguistics
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spelling Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelikeGoldrick, MatthewRunnqvist, ElinCosta, Albert, 1970-BilingualismPsycholinguisticsIt is well known that multilingual speakers’ nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker’s accent? Such difficulties are predicted by interactive theories of production, which propose that nontarget representations, partially activated during lexical access, influence phonetic processing. We examined this possibility using language switching, a task that is well known to disrupt multilingual speech production. We found that these disruptions extend to the articulation of individual speech sounds. When native Spanish speakers are required to unexpectedly switch the language of production between Spanish and English, their speech becomes more accented than when they do not switch languages (particularly for cognate targets). These findings suggest that accents reflect not only difficulty in acquiring second-language speech sounds but also the influence of representations partially activated during on-line speech processing.This research was supported by Grants BCS0846147 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, PSI2011-23033 and CONSOLIDERINGENIO2010 CSD2007-00048 from the Spanish government, and SGR 2009-1521 from the Catalan government.SAGE Publications202020202014info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/44031http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613520014reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésPsychological Science. 2014 Feb 6;25(4):1031-6.info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2007-00048info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/SGR 2009-1521Goldrick M, Runnqvist E, Costa A, Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike, Psychological Science (vol 25, issue 4) pp. 1031–6. Copyright © 2014 © SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613520014info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/440312026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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Goldrick, Matthew
Bilingualism
Psycholinguistics
title_short Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike
title_full Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike
title_fullStr Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike
title_full_unstemmed Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike
title_sort Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Goldrick, Matthew
Runnqvist, Elin
Costa, Albert, 1970-
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Runnqvist, Elin
Costa, Albert, 1970-
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Costa, Albert, 1970-
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Psycholinguistics
topic Bilingualism
Psycholinguistics
description It is well known that multilingual speakers’ nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker’s accent? Such difficulties are predicted by interactive theories of production, which propose that nontarget representations, partially activated during lexical access, influence phonetic processing. We examined this possibility using language switching, a task that is well known to disrupt multilingual speech production. We found that these disruptions extend to the articulation of individual speech sounds. When native Spanish speakers are required to unexpectedly switch the language of production between Spanish and English, their speech becomes more accented than when they do not switch languages (particularly for cognate targets). These findings suggest that accents reflect not only difficulty in acquiring second-language speech sounds but also the influence of representations partially activated during on-line speech processing.
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