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  • Multilingual speakers often exhibit accents in their nonnative language productions.
  • Existing theories primarily attribute accents to mislearning second-language sound categories.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether speech sound processing difficulties contribute to multilingual accents.
  • To explore the role of interactive production theories in explaining accent variations.

Main Methods:

  • Examined language switching, a known disruptor of multilingual speech production.
  • Compared accentuation in native Spanish speakers during monolingual versus bilingual (Spanish-English) switching tasks.

Main Results:

  • Language switching significantly increased accentuation in native Spanish speakers compared to monolingual production.
  • The effect was particularly pronounced for cognate words, suggesting interference from partially activated representations.

Conclusions:

  • Accents in multilingual speakers are influenced by both second-language sound acquisition and on-line speech processing.
  • Interactive theories of speech production provide a framework for understanding how cognitive processes impact phonetic output.