Babylonia (Dec 2024)
Accent and speech sounds in bilingual children
Abstract
Between September and December 2023, Babylonia collected questions from parents regarding their children's language development. This article aims to answer the following questions about foreign accent in children and speech sound errors. - Hello, I'm French and I live in the United States. My 8-year-old son speaks French and English. Since he was very little, he has spoken French with a slight American accent. This has always surprised me, because he's not surrounded by French-speaking Americans. I thought the accent was something you picked up "by ear "*! Is it actually linked to the physiognomy of the mouth? *For example, one year he had a Romanian teacher at school. And for the first few days, he'd come home speaking French with a Romanian accent! [this is the English version of a question originally asked in French] - How can I address speech sound errors or articulation difficulties?
