TY - GEN
T1 - Child Kriol has stop distinctions based on VOT and constriction duration
AU - Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L.
AU - Baker, Brett J.
AU - Bell, Elise A.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - ![CDATA[We present acoustic analyses of stop productions by 16 Kriol-speaking children from two communities in the Northern Territory, Australia. Kriol has been characterised as having a variable phonological inventory and lexical items, presenting children with a difficult language-learning task. Our results suggest, on the contrary, that these children have canonical lexical specifications, and also indicate that their experience with L2 English in a school setting has not resulted in a shift towards more English-like Voice Onset Time and Constriction Duration settings. Indeed, the results are consistent with recent adult Kriol data and indicate that Kriol phonology is stable and shows no obvious evidence of decreolisation.]]
AB - ![CDATA[We present acoustic analyses of stop productions by 16 Kriol-speaking children from two communities in the Northern Territory, Australia. Kriol has been characterised as having a variable phonological inventory and lexical items, presenting children with a difficult language-learning task. Our results suggest, on the contrary, that these children have canonical lexical specifications, and also indicate that their experience with L2 English in a school setting has not resulted in a shift towards more English-like Voice Onset Time and Constriction Duration settings. Indeed, the results are consistent with recent adult Kriol data and indicate that Kriol phonology is stable and shows no obvious evidence of decreolisation.]]
KW - Kriol language
KW - phonology
KW - language acquisition
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:53575
UR - https://assta.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SST2016_Proceedings.pdf
M3 - Conference Paper
SP - 269
EP - 272
BT - Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 6-9 December 2016, Parramatta, Australia
PB - Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association
T2 - Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Y2 - 6 December 2016
ER -