The predictors of foreign-accentedness in the home language of Polish–English bilingual children

We investigated the speech patterns and accentedness of Polish–English bilingual children raised in Great Britain to verify whether their L1 Polish would be perceived as different from that of monolinguals matched for age and socioeconomic status. To this end, Polish-language speech samples of 32 bilinguals and 10 monolinguals (a 3:1 ratio, M Age = 5.79) were phonetically analysed by trained phoneticians and rated by 55 Polish raters, who...