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Autor/inn/en | Au, Terry Kit-fong; Oh, Janet S.; Knightly, Leah M.; Jun, Sun-Ah; Romo, Laura F. |
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Titel | Salvaging a Childhood Language |
Quelle | In: Journal of Memory and Language, 58 (2008) 4, S.998-1011 (14 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0749-596X |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jml.2007.11.001 |
Schlagwörter | Phonology; Child Language; Native Speakers; Pronunciation; Adult Students; Spanish; Comparative Analysis; Grammar; Second Language Learning; Measures (Individuals); Oral Language; Language Acquisition |
Abstract | Childhood experience with a language seems to help adult learners speak it with a more native-like accent. Can analogous benefits be found beyond phonology? This study focused on adult learners of Spanish who had spoken Spanish as their native language before age 7 and only minimally, if at all, thereafter until they began to re-learn Spanish around age 14 years. They were compared with native speakers, childhood overhearers, and typical late-second-language (L2)-learners of Spanish. Both childhood speakers and overhearers spoke Spanish with a more native-like accent than typical late-L2-learners. On grammar measures, childhood speakers--although far from native-like--reliably outperformed childhood overhearers as well as typical late-L2-learners. These results suggest that while simply overhearing a language during childhood could help adult learners speak it with a more native-like phonology, speaking a language regularly during childhood could help re-learners use it with more native-like grammar as well as phonology. (Author). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |