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Seminar Paper - from Helen Doron - Part 16

Does repeated listening to a Foreign Language create two separate phonological systems in monolingual 2-year-olds?

Hebrew monolinguals just truncated. Syllables preserved.

Name and age	Average no of syllables	No of words	first	second	third	fourth
Amit 2.1	2.55	14	10	3	10	12
Gal 2.7	2.92	9	4	4	8	7
Niv 2.0	1.22	9	0	0	5	6

English Twolinguals – just truncated. Syllables preserved.

Name and age	Average no of syllables	No of words	first	second	third	fourth
Inbar 2.6	2.73	12	2	6	10	12
Guy 2.11	3.21	6	3	3	4	4
Dorin 2.9	3.41	5	2	3	5	3
Shahaf 2.11	3.29	10	2	9	10	7

Hebrew Twolinguals – just truncated. Syllables preserved.

Name and age	Average no of syllables	No of words	first	second	third	fourth
Inbar 2.6	3.1	6	3	1	6	6
Guy 2.11	3.8	2	0	1	2	2
Dorin 2.9	3.64	3	1	1	3	3
Shahaf 2.11	3.0	4	2	3	4	2

English monolinguals – just truncated. Syllables preserved.

Name and age	Total words taken into account	Average no of syllables for total words	No of truncated words	first	second	third	fourth
William 2.8	13	3.23	9	2	7	9	8
Shoni 2.9	10	3.5	5	0	5	5	5
Charlie 2.11	13	3.0	6	1	4	3	6
Dervla 2.6	14	3.43	10	2	9	10	9
Jake 2.6	13	3.38	8	1	8	8	7
Juliet 2.9	16	3.38	10	5	10	8	7

Truncation rate according to word rhythm WS'WS

Name and age	Total number of times words spoken	Number of words / times truncated	first	second	third	fourth
William 2.8	4	4	0	4	4	3
Shoni 2.9	3	1	0	1	1	1
Charlie 2.11	3	1	1	1	0	1
Dervla 2.6	5	4	1	4	4	4
Jake 2.6	4	2	0	2	2	2
Juliet 2.9	3	2	1	2	1	2
TOTAL	22	14	3	14	12	13

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