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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Speech-Language Pathology
Developmental Psychology

Background:

Multilingual children's speech may exhibit atypical patterns compared to monolinguals.
Cross-linguistic transfer, using structures from one language in another, is a common factor in these differences.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate cross-linguistic transfer in Vietnamese-English speaking children and adults.
To analyze transfer at phoneme and syllable levels, focusing on nonshared consonants and English consonant clusters.

Main Methods:

Speech assessments of single words were conducted in Vietnamese and English for 66 children (ages 2;0-8;10) and 83 adults.
Analysis focused on frequency, patterns, and direction of nonshared consonant transfer.
Syllable structure patterns in English consonant clusters were identified.

Main Results:

Cross-linguistic transfer of nonshared consonants was observed in 75.76% of children.
Transfer occurred more frequently when the target sound was nonshared and infrequent.
Bidirectional transfer was limited to the youngest children (2;6-4;5).
English consonant clusters were affected by syllable structure patterns in both children (35.76%) and adults (22.95%).

Conclusions:

Cross-linguistic transfer is evident in both children and adults speaking Vietnamese and English.
Accurate diagnosis requires assessing speech in each language and considering inter-language interactions.