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Publication details [#30791]
Johnson, Carolyn E. and Ian L. Wilson. 2002. Phonetic evidence for early language differentiation: Research issues and some preliminary data. International Journal of Bilingualism 6 (3) : 271–289.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Kingston Press
ISBN
0023-8309
Journal WWW
Annotation
Drawing on data from two children, ages four and two, learning Japanese and English, this paper examines whether the phonological modules of a young bilingual child are separate, focusing on voice onset time (VOT). The t-test results for the four-year-old indicate a significantly longer duration of VOT for English than for Japanese.