Abstract
The study compares temporal aspects of voicing in Russian and English. Specifically, it examines whether Russian-English bilinguals who have learned English as a second language (L2) in early childhood are able to differentiate Russian and English consonants /p/, /b/, /t/, /d/, /k/, /g/ according to voice onset time (VOT). Monolingual Russian-speaking 3-year-old children’s VOTs will be compared to those of monolingual Russian-speaking adults. Bilingual (Russian and English) 9-year-old children’s VOTs will be compared to monolingual 9-year-old children’s VOTs. It is predicted that 9-year-old bilingual children will demonstrate appropriate voicing boundaries in English; however, their production of Russian VOTs will differ from the Russian monolingual production.
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