How does mother tongue affect second language acquisition? - Language Magazine - 0 views
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Because cues that signal the beginning and ending of words can differ from language to language, a person’s native language can provide misleading information when learning to segment a second language into words.
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“The moment we hear a new language, all of a sudden we hear a stream of sounds and don’t know where the words begin or end,” Tremblay said. “Even if we know words from the second language and can recognize them in isolation, we may not be able to locate these words in continuous speech, because a variety of processes affect how words are realized in context.”
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Other cues, such as intonation, are harder to master and are more likely to be influenced by a speaker’s native language.
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