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Abstract
This study builds on Flege et al. (2006) and evaluated the influence of
chronological age and length of residence in North America on degree of foreign accent in first language (L1) Korean by Korean
adults and children in immigrant settings. The adult (A4/6) and child (C4/6) immigrants lived in the host countries for 4 or 6
years, respectively. Their Korean utterances were compared to those of age-matched controls in Seoul, Korea. The purpose was to
examine the cross-linguistic influence of English on the degree of foreign accent in L1 Korean by the immigrants. Eighteen
native-speaking judges rated four Korean utterances for overall degree of perceived foreign accent. Both adult and child
immigrants were more strongly foreign accented than the controls. However, (1) stability of L1 Korean was greater (less
foreign-accented) for the adult than child immigrants; and (2) there was no significant difference between the A4 and A6, and C4
and C6 groups. This suggests that by the time the Korean immigrants lived in North America for four years, they have diverged
audibly from the predominantly monolingual speakers in Seoul. The results have implications for L1 maintenance/attrition and
plasticity in spoken language processing.
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LAB provides an outlet for cutting-edge, contemporary studies on bilingualism. LAB assumes a broad definition of bilingualism, including: adult L2 acquisition, simultaneous child bilingualism, child L2 acquisition, adult heritage speaker competence, L1 attrition in L2/Ln environments, and adult L3/Ln acquisition. LAB solicits high quality articles of original research assuming any cognitive science approach to understanding the mental representation of bilingual language competence and performance, including cognitive linguistics, emergentism/connectionism, generative theories, psycholinguistic and processing accounts, and covering typical and atypical populations.