Longitudinal Developments in Bilingual Second Language Acquisition and First Language Attrition of Speech
The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5900985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Kornder (0000-0002-4870-4782, University of Graz, corresponding author), Ineke Mennen (0000-0002-2757-0818, University of Graz) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 61 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Languages (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/languages6020061 |
| OpenAlex | W3137078376 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 76 |
The purpose of this investigation was to trace first (L1) and second language (L2) segmental speech development in the Austrian German-English late bilingual Arnold Schwarzenegger over a period of 40 years, which makes it the first study to examine a bilingual's speech development over several decades in both their languages. To this end, acoustic measurements of voice onset time (VOT) durations of word-initial plosives (Study 1) and formant frequencies of the first and second formant of Austrian German and English monophthongs (Study 2) were conducted using speech samples collected from broadcast interviews. The results of Study 1 showed a merging of Schwarzenegger's German and English voiceless plosives in his late productions as manifested in a significant lengthening of VOT duration in his German plosives, and a shortening of VOT duration in his English plosives, closer to L1 production norms. Similar findings were evidenced in Study 2, revealing that some of Schwarzenegger's L1 and L2 vowel categories had moved closer together in the course of L2 immersion. These findings suggest that both a bilingual's first and second language accent is likely to develop and reorganize over time due to dynamic interactions between the first and second language system
Acoustics · Duration (music · Formant · German · Linguistics · Physics · Stress (linguistics · Voice-onset time · Vowel · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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