Abstract
This study examines the cross-linguistic phonetic interactions in the production of diphthongs by French–English bilingual children. Tautosyllabic vowel-glide combinations in English and French have different phonological statuses. This combination corresponds to a single segment (i.e., a diphthong) in English, but two separate segments (i.e., vowel+glide) in French. Using a picture-naming experiment, the study aims to investigate (1) whether English diphthongs (e.g., /aI/ as in bye) and French tautosyllabic vowel-glide combinations (e.g. /aj/ as in baille ‘yawn’) have different phonetic implementations and, if so, (2) whether bilingual children maintain two separate categories. Diphthongs were recorded for six monolingual speakers of French and English, and four 6-7 year-old bilingual French-English speakers living in the US. To best capture the dynamic properties of diphthongs, the curves corresponding to F1 and F2 trajectories were submitted to statistical comparisons using the Smoothing Spline ANOVA. ...
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