This acoustic investigation focuses on the preservation of the two low French vowels /a/ vs. /ɑ/ within a vowel system that otherwise manifests striking convergent properties with English. Our acoustic data demonstrate that this inherited contrast is preserved, with a distribution largely reflective of conservative French, despite various pressures on our speakers that might cause them to alter their phonetic categories in a language contact situation (in the sense of Flege 1987). The larger picture that emerges is that in contact situations we observe a complex pattern of transfer versus maintenance that cannot be accounted for via any of the current models of bilingual phonology – models driven by language internal pressures such as level differences between phonology and phonetics, sound similarity, functional load, or universal statements of markedness.
2020. Phonetic Attrition in Vowels’ Quality in L1 Speech of Late Czech-French Bilinguals. In Text, Speech, and Dialogue [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 12284], ► pp. 348 ff.
Schoormann, Heike E, Wilbert Heeringa & Jörg Peters
2019. Standard German vowel productions by monolingual and trilingual speakers. International Journal of Bilingualism 23:1 ► pp. 138 ff.
Amaro, Jennifer Cabrelli
2017. Testing the Phonological Permeability Hypothesis: L3 phonological effects on L1 versus L2 systems. International Journal of Bilingualism 21:6 ► pp. 698 ff.
Major, Roy C.
2010. First language attrition in foreign accent perception. International Journal of Bilingualism 14:2 ► pp. 163 ff.
Bullock, Barbara E.
2009. Prosody in contact in French: A case study from a heritage variety in the USA. International Journal of Bilingualism 13:2 ► pp. 165 ff.
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