The unbalanced effect of bilingualism: the role of the dominant language on syllable segmentation by Parisian French and American English bilingual hearers
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15 septembre 2011
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bilingualism syllable phonetics psycholinguistics syllabification French speakers English speakers dominant languageSujets proches
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Erwan Pépiot et al., « The unbalanced effect of bilingualism: the role of the dominant language on syllable segmentation by Parisian French and American English bilingual hearers », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.i8iym3
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This study deals with the segmentation of French and English pseudo-words according to the dominant language of the hearer (American English/Parisian French). The goal of this experiment is to validate the hypothesis that French dominant hearers perceive the syllabification of 'CVCV English words (i.e. ['tɪmi]) as */'CV-CV/ ("ti-my") as they would do for CVCV French words) unlike English dominant hearers who tend to prefer /'CVC-V/ or /'CVC-CV/ answers ("tim-y" or "tim-my"). Our results are consistent with this hypothesis, and support the idea that for bilingual hearers, perception of syllabification may be driven by their dominant language rather their their mother tongue.