音节长度和类型影响芬兰语母语者和双语儿童阅读过程

Abstract Evidence suggests that auditory perception of Finnish phoneme-length contrasts is difficult when such contrasts are irrelevant in one's first language (L1). The effects of phoneme length (long/short) and type (stop consonant/vowel) on reading processes were studied in monolingual Finnish and multilingual children representing 13 L1 languages. Thirty native L1 Finnish (16 female, 14 male) and 30 sequentially multilingual children (16 female, 14 male) with L2 Finnish participated in an eye-tracking experiment at age 9–10 years. The children read 64 carrier sentences containing embedded