Social and Psychological Factors in Bilingual Speech Production

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Language; (Austrian) German; accent; accent identification; accent rating; apocope; Austrian German; bilingual speech processing; bilingualism; Calabrese; code-switching; English; first language attrition; foreign accent; foreign domestic helper; Galician phonetics; German; global foreign accent; heritage language; Italian; L1 attrition; L2 speech performance; language variation; length of residence; majority language; maternal acculturation; maternal enculturation; minority language bilingualism; minority languages; n/a; naturalistic adult acquisition; new speakers; phonetic drift; phonetics; phonological transfer; Portuguese; preschool children; pronunciation; Russian; school children; second language acquisition; sequential bilingualism; sociolinguistic awareness; Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers; speech; speech development; speech production; speech sound production; variationist sociolinguistics; voice onset time; VOT; vowel centralization; vowel formants; vowel reduction; Welsh; Welsh English
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036522777; 9783036522784; books978-3-0365-2278-4
• Access: Open Access

Studies in the fields of bilingualism and second language acquisition have shown that both cognitive and affective psychological factors can influence individuals' bilingual speech production. More recently, both experimental and variationist studies of bilingual communities have examined the role of social factors on bilinguals' speech, particularly in cases of long-term language contact and minority-language bilingualism. The Special Issue brings together work on the psychological and/or social factors that influence bilingual speech production as well as work that uses different methodological frameworks. We examine the role of such factors on bilingual speech production in diverse contexts, in order to provide a more holistic account of the ways in which extra-linguistic influences may affect bilinguals' speech in one or both of their languages.