Sound Change in Albanian Monolinguals and Albanian–English Sequential Bilingual Returnees in Tirana, Albania

Sound Change in Albanian Monolinguals and Albanian–English Sequential Bilingual Returnees in Tirana, Albania

This research investigated contrastive perception of L1 phonological categories in Albanian–English bilinguals who returned to Albania after living abroad for over on average a decade. In Standard Albanian, there are phonemic contrasts between /c/ and /tʃ/, /ɫ/ and /l/, and /ɹ/ and /r/. These phonem...

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Main Authors: Esther de Leeuw, Enkeleida Kapia, Scott Lewis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-03-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
sound change
bilingualism
perception
phonology
attrition
Albanian
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/80

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https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/8/1/80

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