Chapter 7
Phonetic characteristics of filled pauses in Hungarian-English
bilingual and Hungarian monolingual speech
We analyzed Hungarian filled pauses produced by
monolingual Hungarian-speaking children (ages 6 to 9 years) and
their bilingual Hungarian- and English-speaking peers in connected
speech samples to investigate whether the hesitations produced by
the groups would differ due to cross-linguistic influences on
bilingual children’s speech or adhere to the phonology of the target
language in both groups. Our results indicated specific effects of
English on Hungarian filled pauses of our bilingual participants. At
the same time, the Hungarian hesitations produced by both groups
largely adhered to the phonology of the target language, reinforcing
the notion that speech and language acquisition in bilinguals
differs – at least in some respects – from speech patterns produced
by monolingual peers (cf. Grosjean, 1989).
Article outline
- Introduction
- Method
- Participants
- Materials
- Speech analysis procedure
- Results
- V type hesitations
-
V+Cnasal type hesitations
- Discussion and conclusion
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Acknowledgements
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Note
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