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Wouters, Jason (2021)

The Cross-Linguistics Influence on the Realization of the Voice Onset Time of English L3 Stop Consonants by Simultaneous Bilingual Speakers

Bachelor thesis | Engelse taal en cultuur (BA)

This thesis examines the origin of cross-linguistic influence on the realization of the voice onset time of English L3 stop consonants produced by simultaneous bilingual speakers who speak at least one non-European Indo-European language. The participants were asked to read a list of words with stop consonants in word-initial, word-medial, and word-final positions. By comparing the values of the voice onset time realized by the three participants with the voice onset time values of their two first languages, a conclusion was drawn about the origin of the cross-linguistic influence. This thesis concludes that both of a simultaneous bilingual speaker’s first languages are a combined source of cross-linguistic influence and that this influence is determined by the perceived typology of the language and the feature that is being affected.

cross-linguistic influence

voice onset time

2L1

TLA

typology

Author

Wouters, Jason

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Grijzenhout, J.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en