Voice Onset Timing in the English of Spanish Heritage Speakers
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https://doi.org/10.18041/1657-7531/interaccion.0.2334Keywords:
Spanish as a Heritage Language, Bilingualism, Voice Onset Timing (VOT), Spanish in the U.SAbstract
The phonological system of bilinguals has been the subject of many recent studies. Several studies have specifically looked at Voice Onset Time (VOT) production in bilinguals in order to answer questions about the phonological system or systems of different types of bilinguals. For example, prior studies have looked at the effects of bilingual phonological production based on age of acquisition of a second language, cross-linguistic influence, and childhood experience with the language. This study will specifically examine the VOT production of a group of bilingual English-Spanish students who are enrolled in a Spanish as a Heritage Language Program (henceforth, SHL) at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This population is of particular interest as Spanish and English have been in long-standing contact in this region of the country. This study will measure the VOT of this diverse group of bilinguals in order to assess whether and to what extent exposure to and/or proficiency in Spanish has an effect on the production of English VOTs in this region of the country.
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Balukas, C., & Koops, C. (2014). Spanish-English bilingual voice onset time in spontaneous code- switching. International Journal of Bilingualism. doi1367006913516035.
Boersma, P. & Weenink, D. (2015). Praat: doing phonetics by computer [Computer program]. Version 5.4.21, retrieved from http://www.praat.org/
Byrd, D. (1993). 54,000 American stops. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 83, 97-116.
Cho, T., & Ladefoged, P. (1999). Variation and universals in VOT: evidence from 18 languages. Journal of phonetics, 27(2), 207-229.
Crystal, T. H., & House, A. S. (1988). Segmental durations in connected-speech signals: Current results. The journal of the acoustical society of America, 83(4), 1553-1573.
Flege, J. E., Schirru, C., & MacKay, I. R. (2003). Interaction between the native and second language phonetic subsystems. Speech communication, 40(4), 467-491.
Flege, J. E. (1991). Age of learning affects the authenticity of voice-onset time (VOT) in stop consonants produced in a second language. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 89(1), 395-411.
Kehoe, M. M., Lleó, C., & Rakow, M. (2004). Voice onset time in bilingual German-Spanish children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 7(01), 71-88.
Knightly, L. M., Jun, S. A., Oh, J. S., & Au, T. K. F. (2003). Production benefits of childhood overhearing. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,114(1), 465-474.
MacGregor-Mendoza, P. (2000). Aquí no se habla Español: Stories of linguistic repression in southwest schools. Bilingual Research Journal, 24(4), 355-367.
MacLeod, A., & Stoel-Gammon, C. (2005). Are bilinguals different? What VOT tells us about simultaneous bilinguals. Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders, 3(2), 118-127.
MacLeod, A. A., & Stoel-Gammon, C. (2010). What is the impact of age of second language acquisition on the production of consonants and vowels among childhood bilinguals? International Journal of Bilingualism, 14, 400-421.
Magloire, J. E. L., & Green, K. P. (1999). A cross-language comparison of speaking rate effects on the production of voice onset time in English and Spanish. Phonetica, 56(3-4), 158-185.
Oh, J. S., Jun, S., Knightly, L. M., & Au, T. K. (2003). ‘‘Holding on to childhood language memory,’’ Cognition 86, B53–B64.
Olson, D. J. (2013). Bilingual language switching and selection at the phonetic level: Asymmetrical transfer in VOT production. Journal of Phonetics, 41(6), 407-420.
Sánchez, R. (1982). Our linguistic and social context. In J. Amastae, L. Elías-Olivares. Spanish in the United States: Sociolinguistic aspects. (pp. 9-46). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Silva-Corvalán, C., & Enrique-Arias, A. (2001). Lenguas en contacto y bilingüismo. Sociolingüística y pragmática del español. 269-332. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
Thomas, E. (2010). Sociophonetics: an introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Thornburgh, D. F., & Ryalls, J. H. (1998). Voice onset time in Spanish-English bilinguals: Early versus late learners of English. Journal of communication disorders, 31(3), 215-229.
Wilson, D. V., & Martinez, R. (2011). Diversity in Definition: Integrating History and Student Attitudes in Understanding Heritage Learners of Spanish in New Mexico. Heritage Language Journal, 8(2), 115-133.
Yao, Y. (2009). “An exemplar-based approach to automatic burst detection in spontaneous speech,” in UC Berkeley Phonology Lab 2009 Annual Report (UC Berkeley Phonology Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), pp. 13–28.
Zue, V. W. (1976). Acoustic characteristics of stop consonants: A controlled study (Ph. D. Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Retrieved from https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ handle/1721.1/29469/Zue_Victor_ScD_1976. pdf?sequence=1
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Lunde, M. P. (2015). Voice Onset Timing in the English of Spanish Heritage Speakers. Interacción, 14, 17-26. https://doi.org/10.18041/1657-7531/interaccion.0.2334
