Phonological development in the home language among early Polish-English bilinguals
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چکیده
The study involved the analysis of Polish speech samples of 59 Polish-English bilingual children of Polish immigrants to the UK. It aimed to explore differences in phonological performance between these early bilinguals and their Polish monolingual peers. The data collection procedure involved a sentence repetition task. 14 preselected sentences from this task were subsequently analysed auditorily by three phonetically trained raters. The measures of phonological performance included the number of speech errors made by children, and the assessment of cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in twelve areas (i.e. aspects of speech). Significant differences were found between the phonological performance measures of Polish-English bilinguals vs. 24 Polish monolingual controls. Bilinguals' speech was characterised by CLI from English, especially in the production of consonants and consonant clusters. As predicted, the phonology of the migrant Polish language in Polish-English bilingual children was found susceptible to the influence from English, the community language.
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