Interlingual Interactions Elicit Performance Mismatches Not “Compromise” Categories in Early Bilinguals: Evidence from Meta-Analysis and Coronal Stops

Previous studies attest that some early bilinguals produce the sounds of their languages in a manner is characterized as “compromise” with regard to monolingual speakers. The present study uses meta-analytic techniques and coronal stop data from order assess this claim. goal was evaluate cumulative evidence for voice-onset time (VOT) speech by providing comprehensive assessment literature presenting an acoustic analysis stops Spanish–English bilinguals. were coded linguistic methodological features, well effect sizes, then analyzed using cross-classified Bayesian meta-analysis. pooled VOT negligible (? = ?0.13). showed often produced Spanish English targets mismatched features other language. These performance mismatches presumably occurred result interlingual interactions elicited experimental task. Taken together, results suggest do not have VOT, though involves dynamic phonetic can surface during production.