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Phonetics of language attrition: Vowel production and articulatory setting in the speech of Western Armenian heritage speakers.

机译：语言损耗的语音：在西亚美尼亚传统语言的演讲者中，元音的产生和发音环境。

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This study investigates whether the age at which English becomes dominant for Western Armenian bilinguals in the United States affects their vowel production and articulatory setting in Western Armenian. Participating in the study were ten Western-Armenian bilinguals who learned English before age 8, ten bilinguals who did not learn English until adulthood, and one Western Armenian monolingual. Vowel production was measured using recordings from oral reading of a list of sentences. Recordings of oral narratives describing pictures were used to analyze articulatory setting.;Results showed that English affects the Western Armenian vowel system but only for those vowels that are already close to English. This bifurcation of vowel behavior indicates that a single across-the-board principle that governs the influence of a dominant language on a minority language is too general. Other forces such as universal tendencies, normal diachronic change, and sociolinguistic pressures must be considered. Also, even though the influence of English was stronger for those exposed to English as children than for those exposed as adults, the latter group showed significant changes in the direction of English. This means that the effects of the dominant language extend over a lifetime.;Measurements of articulatory setting showed no differences between the early and late learners of English based on their acquisition history or on their age at the time of the study. However, there: were differences in articulatory setting according to country of origin for later learners. Those whose acquisition of Western Armenian was interrupted by learning English in childhood did not show this effect. This leveling out of dialectal distinctions present in the speech of late learners of English may indicate the overshadowing influence of English or the operation of universal tendencies in first language acquisition.;The instrumental and statistical methods used in the study proved to be successful in investigating the phonetics of language attrition in an immigrant community. In particular, long term spectral analysis of articulatory setting was sensitive enough to identify within-language variation among bilinguals with different language histories.
机译：这项研究调查了英语在美国成为西亚美尼亚双语人士的主导年龄是否会影响他们在西亚美尼亚语中的元音产生和发音环境。参与该研究的有10名在8岁之前学习英语的西亚美尼亚双语者，10名直到成年后才学习英语的双语者以及1名西亚美尼亚语的双语者。元音的产生是通过口头阅读句子列表中的录音来测量的。记录图片的口头叙事记录被用于分析发音环境。结果表明，英语会影响西亚美尼亚元音系统，但只会影响那些已经接近英语的元音。元音行为的这种分叉表明，支配主导语言对少数民族语言影响的单一全面原则太笼统了。必须考虑其他因素，例如普遍趋势，正常的历时变化和社会语言压力。同样，尽管英语的影响力对那些从小接触英语的孩子比对那些成年接触的孩子更重要，但后一组显示出英语方向的重大变化。这意味着主要语言的影响会持续一生。根据对他们的习得历史或学习年龄的了解，对发音环境的测量结果显示，早期和晚期英语学习者之间没有差异。但是，对于后来的学习者，根据原籍国的发音环境存在差异。那些在童年时期因学习英语而中断了对西亚美尼亚人的学习的人没有表现出这种效果。晚期英语学习者的语音中出现的方言差异的这种平整可能表明英语的影响力过强或通用语言在母语习得中的作用。;研究中使用的工具和统计方法被证明可以成功地调查英语。移民社区中的语言损耗语音。特别是，对发音环境的长期频谱分析足够灵敏，可以识别具有不同语言历史的双语者之间的语言差异。

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  • 作者

    Godson, Linda Isaacson.;

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    University of California, San Diego.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, San Diego.;
  • 学科 Language Linguistics.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2003
  • 页码 197 p.
  • 总页数 197
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 语言学;
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