@inproceedings{c05ed4691905448ea39e6f79e0ddc47a,
title = "Bilingual representation of speech sounds in Chinese-Japanese bilinguals",
abstract = "This study is to explore the speech processing of second language. Chinese-Japanese bilinguals were selected to detect the characteristics of bilingual speech processing and bilingual representation through a vowel-identifying behavioural experiment. In this experiment, selected Japanese and Chinese words were double-character word with the same syllables and patterns. Examinees were asked to determine whether the first syllable of each word is pronounced as a vowel. Therein, the words fall into high-frequency and low-frequency ones. The results coincided with the supposition that differences in speech processing can be attributed to personally diverse understanding of speech sounds; and results in terms of lingual representation were in agreement with the viewpoint that language proficiency, language acquisition methods and exposure to the very language will affect lingual representation.",
keywords = "bilingualism, second language environment, speech processing",
author = "Sa Lu and Kun Wang and Xin Wang and Xiaoyu Tang and Yanna Ren and Jinglong Wu",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.; 13th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016 ; Conference date: 07-08-2016 Through 10-08-2016",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/ICMA.2016.7558975",
language = "English",
series = "2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "2593--2598",
booktitle = "2016 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, IEEE ICMA 2016",
address = "United States",
}