PHONETIC AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN BILINGUAL TWINS: A FORENSIC PHONETICS APPROACH TO FRENCH AND MAURITIAN CREOLE

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Growing up with two languages also has different ways by which the developmental of speech and cognitive abilities are affected. Bilingualism is associated with different factors such as Problem solving is sharpened, Memory enhanced and an improvement in mental flexibility is also experienced. This paper describes how twins acquire and interact with two languages and examines forensic phonetics in understanding phonetic transfer and interference between the two languages. Same-sex siblings such as twins are especially suitable for research on bilingual acquisition because of the similarities in genetics and the early environment that cause differences in language. This research contributes to the understanding of childrens language acquisition and the phonetic frameworks of bilingual contexts as applied to educational practices, speech-language therapy, and forensic linguistic analysis. Last of all, this work underlines the significance of environmental as well as cognitive factors for twins with regards to Language development earlier suggested that bilingualism and forensic phonetics could gain a lot of impulse from more in-depth studies of language acquisition in twins it is suggested that bilingualism and forensic phonetics might be among the several areas that will benefit if more attention is paid to the analysis of twins.


Deepa Sookara-Ramchurn and Saraswatee Rajiah (2024); PHONETIC AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN BILINGUAL TWINS: A FORENSIC PHONETICS APPROACH TO FRENCH AND MAURITIAN CREOLE, Int. J. of Adv. Res., 12 (12), 1160-1168, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/20124


Deepa Rpoy
Open University of Mauritius
Mauritius

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/20124      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/20124