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Phonological interferences in bilingual acquisition: focus on French and Greek fricatives

Interférences phonologiques dans l'acquisition bilingue : focus sur les fricatives du grec et du français

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This study examines interactions between phonological systems in simultaneous French-Greek bilinguals by comparing their production and perception of place contrasts in fricatives with monolinguals. Results were analysed in light of the three interference types proposed by Paradis & Genesee (1996): acceleration (earlier and better perception and production) of shared contrasts LABIAL-CORONAL (/f, v/ vs. /s, z/); deceleration (later and worse perception and production) of specific contrasts: [±strident] for Greek (/s, z/ vs /θ, ð/ and [±posterior] for French (/s, z/ vs /ʃ, ʒ/); transfer (acquisition of [±posterior] before [±strident]) explained by the dominant language’s influence (Foroodi-Nejad & Paradis, 2009). Thirteen children (four Greek monolinguals, five French monolinguals, four bilinguals raised in France) between 2;6 and 4;6, participated in a picture naming task to produce words with fricatives. Realisations were coded as target-like or substituted. They also participated in a discrimination task (based on Sundara et al., 2006) wherein they were asked to evaluate the word’s “incorrect” pronunciation. Accurate identification, confusion (when an inaccurate realisation was accepted) and reaction time were measured. Same words were used in both tasks. Bilinguals did not show acceleration in perception and production of shared contrasts compared to monolinguals. However, bilinguals accepted less inaccurate realisations of target phonemes and were faster to identify them. Regarding specific contrasts, bilinguals showed deceleration for /θ, ð/, with more substitutions and confusion with /s, z/ and for /ʃ, ʒ/, less accurately identified. We observed a transfer in the contrasts acquisition order: bilinguals acquired the French contrast [±posterior] before the Greek contrast [±strident] in both production and perception. Our study combining perception and production showed that the interaction between phonological systems is due to cross-linguistic differences in structural properties, but is also affected by language dominance in the child’s input, here French. Moreover, our results highlighted a “general bilingual effect” (Kehoe & Havy, 2019) leading to a more efficient information processing (Patuto et al., 2011) or a higher perceptive sensibility by bilinguals.
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halshs-03855364, version 1 (16-11-2022)

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Clémence Guieu-Grandsire. Phonological interferences in bilingual acquisition: focus on French and Greek fricatives. International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC), Jun 2021, Online, Canada. . ⟨halshs-03855364⟩
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