Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike

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• dc.contributor.author Goldrick, Matthew
• dc.contributor.author Runnqvist, Elin
• dc.contributor.author Costa, Albert, 1970-
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-03-26T08:49:57Z
• dc.date.available 2020-03-26T08:49:57Z
• dc.date.issued 2014
• dc.description.abstract It is well known that multilingual speakers’ nonnative productions are accented. Do these deviations from monolingual productions simply reflect the mislearning of nonnative sound categories, or can difficulties in processing speech sounds also contribute to a speaker’s accent? Such difficulties are predicted by interactive theories of production, which propose that nontarget representations, partially activated during lexical access, influence phonetic processing. We examined this possibility using language switching, a task that is well known to disrupt multilingual speech production. We found that these disruptions extend to the articulation of individual speech sounds. When native Spanish speakers are required to unexpectedly switch the language of production between Spanish and English, their speech becomes more accented than when they do not switch languages (particularly for cognate targets). These findings suggest that accents reflect not only difficulty in acquiring second-language speech sounds but also the influence of representations partially activated during on-line speech processing.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by Grants BCS0846147 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, PSI2011-23033 and CONSOLIDERINGENIO2010 CSD2007-00048 from the Spanish government, and SGR 2009-1521 from the Catalan government.
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• dc.identifier.citation Goldrick M, Runnqvist E, Costa A. Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike. Psychol Sci. 2014 Feb 6;25(4):1031-6. DOI: 10.1177/0956797613520014
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613520014
• dc.identifier.issn 0956-7976
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44031
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher SAGE Publications
• dc.relation.ispartof Psychological Science. 2014 Feb 6;25(4):1031-6.
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/PSI2011-23033
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/CSD2007-00048
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/SGR 2009-1521
• dc.rights Goldrick M, Runnqvist E, Costa A, Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike, Psychological Science (vol 25, issue 4) pp. 1031–6. Copyright © 2014 © SAGE Publications. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797613520014
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• dc.subject.keyword Bilingualism
• dc.subject.keyword Psycholinguistics
• dc.title Language switching makes pronunciation less nativelike
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