Bundgaard-Nielsen Rikke L, Baker Brett J, Bell Elise A, Wang Yizhou
MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, Australia.
School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
J Child Lang. 2023 Jul 26:1-37. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000430.
Many Aboriginal Australian communities are undergoing language shift from traditional Indigenous languages to contact varieties such as Kriol, an English-lexified Creole. Kriol is reportedly characterised by lexical items with highly variable phonological specifications, and variable implementation of voicing and manner contrasts in obstruents (Sandefur, 1986). A language, such as Kriol, characterised by this unusual degree of variability presents Kriol-acquiring children with a potentially difficult language-learning task, and one which challenges the prevalent theories of acquisition. To examine stop consonant acquisition in this unusual language environment, we present a study of Kriol stop and affricate production, followed by a mispronunciation detection study, with Kriol-speaking children (ages 4-7) from a Northern Territory community where Kriol is the . In contrast to previous claims, the results suggest that Kriol-speaking children acquire a stable phonology and lexemes with canonical phonemic specifications, and that English experience would not appear to induce this stability.
许多澳大利亚原住民社区正在经历从传统的本土语言向克里奥尔语等接触性变体语言的语言转换，克里奥尔语是一种以英语为词汇基础的克里奥尔语。据报道，克里奥尔语的特点是词汇项目的语音规范高度可变，以及塞音中浊音和发音方式对比的可变实现（桑德弗，1986）。像克里奥尔语这样具有这种异常程度变异性的语言，给学习克里奥尔语的儿童带来了潜在的困难语言学习任务，也挑战了普遍的习得理论。为了研究在这种特殊的语言环境中塞音的习得情况，我们展示了一项关于克里奥尔语塞音和塞擦音发音的研究，随后是一项针对来自北领地一个以克里奥尔语为母语的社区（克里奥尔语是当地的……）说克里奥尔语的儿童（4至7岁）的发音错误检测研究。与之前的说法相反，结果表明说克里奥尔语的儿童获得了稳定的音系和具有规范音位规范的词位，而且英语学习经历似乎并不会促成这种稳定性。
