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Dialect Density in Bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish-English Speaking Children.

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¹The University of Arizona.

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Linguistics
Developmental Psychology
Bilingualism Research

Background:

The interaction between phonological systems in bilingual children remains under-researched.
Understanding dialect feature usage offers insights into speech sound system interaction.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the interaction of phonological systems in bilingual children.
To analyze children's use of dialect features to understand speech sound system interactions.

Main Methods:

Studied 6 monolingual and 6 bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish-English speaking children (ages 5-7).
Analyzed single-word productions for dialect density and frequency of dialect features.
Employed nonparametric statistical analyses to compare language groups.

Main Results:

Monolingual and bilingual children showed similar dialect density.
Differences were observed in the specific types of dialect features utilized by each group.

Conclusions:

Bilingual children's phonological systems interact in complex ways, reflected in dialect feature use.
Findings support the Dual Systems Model of language acquisition in bilingual children.