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THE ACQUISITION OF HUNGARIAN PHONOLOGV BY TRILINGUAL CHILDREIN

Judit Navracsics ; Department of Applied Linguisties, Universitv of Veszprem Hungarv

Abstract

The mciin question of this paper is \vhether the phonological development of hi - or trilingual ehildren is occurring in a common place. whether they share one common phonemic set vvhich is later separated according to languages or the phonemic systems are separated from the very first moment of accjuisition. I am most interestecl in the way trilingual ehildren actpiire Hnngarian phonology. and in the order of the accjuisition of phonemes. The subjects are a trilingual pair of sibling7s whose Hnngarian phonological development will be under investigation. Underextension can be observed since there is no conscious discrimination in the usage of the allophones. Some phonetic/phonological pecidiarities are identical with the ones made by Hungarian monolinguals, others are strange to the Hnngarian car ancl. as a result, a certain accent can be felt in the ehildren 's speech.

Keywords

language accjuisition. VOT; tringualism. phonologv. Hungarian

Hrčak ID:

174178

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/174178

Publication date:

1.9.2000.

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