- Tytuł:
- ARTICULATION AND SPEAKING RATES IN BILINGUALS WITH REGARD TO TIME OF EXPOSURE TO ONE LANGUAGE
- Autorzy:
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Michalik, Mirosław
Czaplewska, Ewa
Solak, Anna
Szkotak, Anna - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2137812.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020-05-13
- Wydawca:
- Fundacja Edukacji Medycznej, Promocji Zdrowia, Sztuki i Kultury Ars Medica
- Tematy:
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bilingualism
speaking rate
articulation rate
pauses - Opis:
- The basic aim of the research presented in this paper was to check whether the language proficiency level of bilingual children with Polish as one of their languages is also related to the pace of speech, which is the result of two specific parameters i.e. articulation rate and speaking rate. It was assumed that children who use Polish more rarely and mostly at home will display slower speaking and articulation rates when contrasted with children who use Polish both at home and at school on an everyday basis. Participants were thirty-two children who speak Polish as one of two languages, the first research group consisting of sixteen Polish-French students at the age of 8.11 living in Wal-lonia. The second group consisted of sixteen Flemish-Polish students living in Flanders. Here the average age was 9.3 and subjects used Polish much less than their first group coun-terparts. The comparative analysis included the following parameters essential for the de-scription of the rate of speech: 1. basic: average speaking rate (phones/sec., syllables/sec, duration of pauses), average articulation rate (phones/sec., syllables/sec.), average ratio of pauses in speech sample (number and percentage), 2. accessory: average duration of all pauses (sec.), average duration of proper pauses (sec.), average duration of filled pauses (sec.), average duration of semi-filled pauses (sec.). The numerical data from the research was obtained with the use of free Audacity software. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between the two research groups in either the basic or the accessory speech rate parameters. In the Polish-French group the results were comparatively better but still statistically insignificant. It seems that the data obtained will confirm the need for considerable caution in the evalua-tion of the competence of bilingual children with high language skills. Similar to children with imbalanced bilingualism, these children may also, perhaps, require some extra time to deal with certain language tasks.
- Źródło:
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Acta Neuropsychologica; 2020, 18(2); 207-220
1730-7503
2084-4298 - Pojawia się w:
- Acta Neuropsychologica
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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