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Chang, C. B. (2014) 'Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language.' Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 19 (4). pp. 791-809.

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Abstract

Research on the linguistic knowledge of heritage speakers has been concerned primarily with the advantages conferred by heritage language experience in production, perception, and (re)learning of the heritage language. Meanwhile, second-language speech research has begun to investigate potential benefits of first-language transfer in second-language performance. Bridging these two bodies of work, the current study examined the perceptual benefits of heritage language experience for heritage speakers of Korean in both the heritage language (Korean) and the dominant language (American English). It was hypothesized that, due to their early bilingual experience and the different nature of unreleased stops in Korean and American English, heritage speakers of Korean would show not only native-like perception of Korean unreleased stops, but also better-than-native perception of American English unreleased stops. Results of three perception experiments were consistent with this hypothesis, suggesting that benefits of early heritage language experience can extend well beyond the heritage language.

Item Type: Journal Article
SOAS Departments & Centres: Legacy Departments > Faculty of Languages and Cultures > Department of Linguistics
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PE English
P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
ISSN: 13667289
Copyright Statement: Copyright 2014 Cambridge University Press. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and Cambridge University Press.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000261
Date Deposited: 21 Nov 2014 16:34
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/19000

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