A study of dominance in speech perception and production by German-English bilinguals
The aim of this study was to characterise the concept of language dominance by a detailed analysis of patterns of cross-language influence in bilingual linguistic processing. The material for this analysis was acquired by testing a group of bilinguals with heterogenous language-acquisition and language-usage patterns in both their languages across a variety of tasks accessing different levels of linguistic encoding and different modalities of language processing. Monolingual controls were also tested in each language. The test battery included perception and production of vowel duration and vowel quality contrasts; a lexical decision and lexical-level metalinguistic judgment task; a test of global accent and a test of syntactic-semantic performance. In addition, detailed information was collected on the language background and language usage of the bilingual subjects, in order to permit an analysis of the interaction of individual variables with patterns of performance. The results showed evidence of extensive cross-language effects in all subjects, regardless of the age or circumstances of bilingual acquisition. This interference was also found to be bidirectional rather than unidirectional, with the second
Holmes, Frederika Kathinka
Language dominance
A study of dominance in speech perception and production by German-English bilinguals. The aim of this study was to characterise the concept of language dominance by a detailed analysis of patterns of cross-language influence in bilingual linguistic processing. The material for this analysis was acquired by testing a group of bilinguals with heterogenous language-acquisition and language-usage patterns in both their languages across a variety of tasks accessing different levels of linguistic encoding and different modalities of language processing. Monolingual controls were also tested in each language. The test battery included perception and production of vowel duration and vowel quality contrasts; a lexical decision and lexical-level metalinguistic judgment task; a test of global accent and a test of syntactic-semantic performance. In addition, detailed information was collected on the language background and language usage of the bilingual subjects, in order to permit an analysis of the interaction of individual variables with patterns of performance. The results showed evidence of extensive cross-language effects in all subjects, regardless of the age or circumstances of bilingual acquisition. This interference was also found to be bidirectional rather than unidirectional, with the second
study dominance speech perception_production german_english bilingual aim_study characterise concept language dominance detail_analysis pattern cross language influence bilingual linguistic processing material analysis acquire test group bilingual language_acquisition language_usage pattern languages across variety task access different_level linguistic encode different modality language_processing monolingual control also test language test battery include perception_production vowel duration vowel quality contrast lexical_decision lexical_level metalinguistic judgment task test global accent test syntactic_semantic performance addition detailed_information collect language background language_usage bilingual subject order permit analysis interaction individual variable pattern performance show evidence extensive cross language effect subject regardless age circumstance bilingual_acquisition interference also_find rather second