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34 - Using a Characteristic Speech Production (CSP) Procedure to Elicit Monolingual and Bilingual Speech

from Part VI - Variables and Outcomes of Bilingual Speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2024

By
James E. Flege
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Mark Amengual
Mark Amengual
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Cruz
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Summary

Many have expressed concerns regarding the replicability of scientific research. However, little of this ongoing discussion has focused on research examining the production of vowels and consonants or the many important choices that researchers must make in pre-analysis phases of speech production research. The literature reviewed here indicates that not all speech production studies have been replicated, and that how speech is elicited may affect the results that are obtained. Many different elicitation techniques are in current use, but none represents a gold standard. The new Characteristic Speech Production (CSP) technique presented here aims to augment replicability by obviating the need for participants to accommodate their speech to that of others or adopt a particular speaking style as they give meaningful answers to meaningful questions. Given the novelty of the CSP technique, the chapter provides a protocol that is designed to test its efficacy. If the CSP technique can be shown to yield speech samples that are more representative of individuals’ speech than a standard list-reading technique, a change in how speech is elicited for production research will be warranted.

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monolingualbilingualnative languagesecond languagespeech productionspeech elicitationreplication crisisJapaneseItaliancharacteristic speech productionvernacular speechclear speechparalinguistic contextlaboratory speech
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The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology , pp. 767 - 790
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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