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Seminar Paper - from Helen Doron - Part 17

Does repeated listening to a Foreign Language create two separate phonological systems in monolingual 2-year-olds?

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WSWW

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
William 2.8 3 3 2 1 3 3
Shoni 2.9 3 3 0 3 3 3
Charlie 2.11 3 2 0 2 2 1
Dervla 2.6 3 3 0 3 3 3
Jake 2.6 3 2 0 2 2 2
Juliet 2.9 6 4 3 4 1 4
TOTAL 21 17 5 15 14 16

Truncation rate according to word rhythm SS'WW

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
William 2.8 3 2 0 2 2 2
Shoni 2.9 3 2 0 2 2 2
Charlie 2.11 4 1 0 1 1 1
Dervla 2.6 2 1 0 1 1 1
Jake 2.6 5 4 0 4 4 4
Juliet 2.9 4 3 2 3 2 2
TOTAL 21 13 2 13 12 12

Truncation rate according to word rhythm SWS'W

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
William 2.8 3 0
Shoni 2.9 3 0
Charlie 2.11 7 2 1 1 1 3
Dervla 2.6 4 0
Jake 2.6 5 0
Juliet 2.9 3 1 1 1 1
TOTAL 24 3 2 2 2 3

Twolinguals

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WS'WS

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Inbar 2.6 4 3 0 1 2 3
Guy 2.11 3 1 0 1 1 0
Dorin 2.9 2 0
Shahaf 2.11 3 2 0 2 2 2
TOTAL 12 6 0 4 5 5

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WSWW

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Inbar 2.6 3 3 1 2 2 3
Guy 2.11 4 2 0 2 2 1
Dorin 2.9 3 2 0 2 2 1
Shahaf 2.11 2 1 0 1 1 1
TOTAL 12 8 1 7 7 6

Truncation rate according to word rhythm SS'WW

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Inbar 2.6 3 2 0 2 2 2
Guy 2.11 2 1 1 1 1 0
Dorin 2.9 3 2 0 2 2 1
Shahaf 2.11 3 3 0 3 3 3
TOTAL 11 8 1 8 8 6
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