The development of voice onset time in French immersion children

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dc.contributor.authorNetelenbos, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorLi, Fangfang
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-22T21:56:23Z
dc.date.available2014-07-22T21:56:23Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.descriptionxiii, 118 leaves : ill. ; 29 cmen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis sought to examine the acquisition of French stop consonants assessed through the acoustic measure of voice onset time (VOT) in French immersion students from grades 1, 3, and 5. A speech production and speech perception task were administered in both English and French. Word-initial voiced and voiceless stops were investigated. Production analysis revealed that children maintained two separate language systems in the realization of all voiceless stops and the voiced stop /g/, whereas an interaction between their English and French sound systems was observed in the realization of the voiced stops /b/ and /d/. In the French perception task, children showed consistency in correctly identifying the voiceless tokens but demonstrated difficulty in the identification of the voiced tokens. The results are discussed in terms of the cross-language phonetic differences between English and French, the particularity of the learning environment, and the influence of an English dominant society.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3466
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquestyesNoen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, c2013en_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectFrench language -- Study and teaching as a second language -- Immersion methoden_US
dc.subjectSecond language acquisition -- Study and teachingen_US
dc.subjectSecond language acquisition -- Researchen_US
dc.subjectFrench language -- Phonologyen_US
dc.subjectFrench language -- Phoneticsen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Phonologyen_US
dc.subjectEnglish language -- Phoneticsen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.titleThe development of voice onset time in French immersion childrenen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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