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Seminar Paper - from Helen Doron - Part 18

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

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
Inbar 2.6 4 4 1 1 4 4
Guy 2.11 3 1 0 0 0 1
Dorin 2.9 3 0
Shahaf 2.11 3 3 2 2 3 0
TOTAL 13 8 3 3 7 5

Hebrew Twolinguals

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WWSW

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Inbar 2.6 5 4 3 0 4 4
Guy 2.11 7 0
Dorin 2.9 8 4 0 3 4 4
Shahaf 2.11 5 3 2 2 3 1
TOTAL 25 11 7 5 11 9

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WWWS

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Inbar 2.6 6 4 2 3 2 4
Guy 2.11 7 2 0 1 2 2
Dorin 2.9 6 1 1 0 1 1
Shahaf 2.11 2 1 0 1 1 1
TOTAL 21 8 3 5 6 8

Hebrew Monolinguals

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WWSW

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Amit 2.1 10 9 3 3 8 9
Gal 2.7 6 4 3 2 4 3
Niv 2.0 3 3 0 0 3 1
TOTAL 19 16 6 5 15 13

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WWWS

Name and age Total number of
times words spoken
Number of words /
times truncated
first second third fourth
Amit 2.1 8 8 4 4 5 8
Gal 2.7 6 3 1 2 2 3
Niv 2.0 8 8 0 0 2 8
TOTAL 22 19 5 6 9 19
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