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Speech Productions of French-English Bilingual Speakers in
Western Canada
Nicole NetelenbosFangfang Li
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• The two language systems of a bilingual speaker may interact, the extent of which depends on:
Age of second language acquisition (Flege et al., 2003) Language environment (Caramazza & Yeni-Komshian,
1974) Among others
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Objectives
Provide a comprehensive picture of bilingualism in the Canadian prairies
Vowels and consonants
English-dominant environment
Late bilinguals
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Questions
Are late French-English bilinguals maintaining two separate language systems in an English dominant environment?
Are the bilinguals’ English speech productions similar to those of monolingual English speakers?
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Participants• 12 French-English bilinguals (6 female, 6 male)
• Born in Quebec, Canada
• Learned English at 13 years or later
• All participants residing in Alberta, Canada at the time of data collection
• Control group- 20 Monolingual English speakers
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Part 1:Investigating vowel formants (F1 & F2)
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Procedure
• Task: read a list of words in English and French beginning with consonants /p, b, t, d, k, g/ containing the tense vowels [u], [e], [i], [o] and lax vowels [ʊ], [ɛ], [ɪ], [ᴐ]
• Sample words in French and English (192- English, 192- French)
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Acoustic analysis
• Vowels
F1
F2
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Acoustic analysis cont.
• Formants extracted using PRAAT software
• 1st and 2nd formants measured at the midpoint
• Genders separated
• Repeated-Measures ANOVA
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Tense vs. lax French vowels : phonological status
Word Phoneme Allophone
Poule /pul/ [pʊl]
[i, u] [I, U] Allophonic variation
• Conditioning environment: (e.g.) Closed syllable laxing: High tense vowels are realized as lax in word-final closed syllables
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Vowel charts Canadian English and Canadian French
GENDRON, J-D. (1966). Tendances phonétiques du français parlé au Canada. Québec, Les Presses de l'Université Laval.
English French
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Previous research
MacLeod, A. N. A, et al. (2009). Production of high vowels in Canadian English and Canadian French: A comparison of early bilingual and monolingual speakers.
Journal of Phonetics, 37, 374-387
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Formant results females: tense vowels
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Formant results as a whole
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Lax Tense
I ʊ ɛ ᴐ i u e o
F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2
bf-be * * * * * *me-be * * * *
Lax Tense
I ʊ ɛ ᴐ i u e o
F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2 F1 F2
bf-be * * * * * * *me-be * * * *
Males
Females
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Interim conclusion: vowels• In general, late French-English bilinguals in Alberta maintained more separate language systems for the lax vowels than for the tense vowels.
• When comparing the bilinguals’ English speech productions to the monolingual English speakers, particularly for the tense vowels, bilinguals are attaining monolingual-like speech patterns in F1 and F2 .
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Part 2:Investigating stops (VOT)
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Procedure
• Task: read a list of words in English and French beginning with consonants /p, b, t, d, k, g/ containing the vowels [y], [æ], [ɑ], [ʊ], [ɛ], [ᴐ] [ɪ], [u], [e], [i] [o]
• Sample words in French and English (264- English, 264- French)
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Acoustic analysis
• Stops (VOT)
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VOT (French vs. English)Prevoicing
Short-lag
Short-lag
Long-lag
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French EnglishPrevoicing
Short-lag
Short-lag
Long-lag
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French EnglishPrevoicing
Short-lag
Short-lag
Long-lag
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French EnglishPrevoicing
Short-lag
Short-lag
Long-lag
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French EnglishPrevoicing
Short-lag
Short-lag
Long-lag
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Cross language phonetic influences on the speech of
French–English bilinguals
Fowler, C. A., Sramko, V., Ostry, D. J., Rowland, S. A., & Hallé, P. (2008). Cross language phonetic influences on the speech of French–English bilinguals. Journal of Phonetics, 36(4), 649-663.
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VOT Results
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VOT Results
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Interim conclusion: VOT
• French-English bilinguals maintain separate VOT categories between their English (L2) and French (L1), except for /t/.
• Their L2 is intermediate between monolingual English and their L1.
• Voiced and voiceless categories are behaving differently.
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General conclusion1 ) Are late French-English bilinguals maintaining two separate language systems in an English dominant environment? It depends. Vowels: no for tense vowels, yes for lax vowels Stops: in general, yes
2) Are the bilinguals’ English speech productions similar to those of monolingual English speakers? It depends. Vowels: yes for tense vowels, no for lax vowels Stops: No