Speech and Language Skills of Bilingual and Monolingual Cochlear Implant Users

Sosa, A., & Bunta, F. (2019). Speech production variability in monolingual and bilingual children with cochlear implants: A comparison to their peers with normal hearing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 62, 2601-2616. doi: 10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-18-0263

Gibson, M., Bunta, F., Goodin-Mayeda, C. E., & Hernandez, A. E. (2018). The acquisition of syllable-level timing contrasts by English- and Spanish-speaking bilingual children with normal hearing and English- and Spanish-speaking bilingual children with cochlear implants. Journal of Phonetics, 71, 96-112.

Li, F., Bunta, F., & Tomblin, J. B. (2017). Alveolar and postalveolar voiceless fricative and affricate productions of Spanish-English bilingual children with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60, 2427-2441. doi:10.1044/2017_JSLHR-S-16-0125

Bunta, F., Goodin-Mayeda, C. E., Procter, A., & Hernandez, A. (2016). Initial stop voicing in bilingual children with cochlear implants and their peers with normal hearing. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 59, 686-698. doi:10.1044/2016_JSLHR-S-15-0212

Bunta, F., Douglas, M., Dickson, H., Cantu, A., Wickesberg, J., & Gifford, R. H., (2016). Dual language versus English only support for bilingual children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants and hearing aids. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 51(4), 460-472. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12223

Bunta, F., & Douglas, M. (2013). The effects of dual language support on the English language skills of bilingual children with cochlear implants and hearing aids as compared to monolingual peers. Language, Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 44, 281-290. doi: 10.1044/0161-1461(2013/12-0073)

Ingram, D., McCartney, P., & Bunta, F. (2001). Phonological representation in children with cochlear implants. Proceedings of the Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, 130-133.

Phonology of Typically Developing Bilingual and Monolingual Children

Bóna, J., Jordanidisz, Á., Auszmann, A., & Bunta, F. (in press). Phonetic characteristics of filled pauses in English-Hungarian bilingual and Hungarian monolingual speech. In Fangfang Li, Karen Pollock, and Robinn Gibb (Eds.), Research in Child Second Language Acquisition: Towards an Integrated Understanding.

Bunta, F., Neuberger, T., Bóna, J., Markó, A., Jordanidisz Á., (2018). The production of selected phonemically short versus long Hungarian vowel pairs by 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds: Implications for developing phonological contrasts in protolanguages. In Elena Babatsouli and David Ingram (Eds.): Phonology in Protolanguage and Interlanguage, Chapter 5 (pp. 139-161). Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing.

Procter, A., Bunta, F., & Aghara, R. (2015). Stop VOT productions by young bilingual Spanish-English children and their monolingual peers. In Mehmet Yavaş (Ed.). Unusual Productions in Phonology: Universals and Language-Specific Considerations (pp. 226-242). New York, NY: Psychology Press/Taylor & Francis.

Neuberger, T., Bóna, J., Markó, A., Jordanidisz, Á., & Bunta, F. (2015). Vowel duration contrast in three long-short pairs by Hungarian 5-, 6-, and 7-year-olds. In Elena Babatsouli & David Ingram (Eds.). The Proceedings of the International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech (pp. 246-251).

Bunta, F., & Norton, M. (2012). The production of the low front American English vowel by monolingual and bilingual four- to five-year-old children. Beszédkutatás, 200-216.

Fabiano-Smith, L., & Bunta, F. (2012). Voice onset time of voiceless bilabial and velar stops in three-year-old bilingual children and their age-matched monolingual peers. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 26(2), 148-163. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2011.595526.

Goldstein, B., & Bunta, F. (2012). Positive and negative transfer in the phonological systems of bilingual speakers. The International Journal of Bilingualism, 16(4), 388-401. doi:10.1177/1367006911425817.

Bunta, F., DiLuca, C., & Branum-Martin,  L. (2011).The acquisition of voiceless post-alveolar fricatives and affricates by bilingual children and their monolingual peers. The Phonetician, 103/104, 36-56.

Goldstein, B., Bunta, F., Lange, J., Rodriguez, J., & Burrows, L. (2010). The effects of measures of language experience and language ability on segmental accuracy in bilingual children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19, 238-247.

Hase, M., Ingram, D., & Bunta, F. (2010). A comparison of two phonological assessment tools for monolingual Spanish-speaking children. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24(4-5), 346-356.

Bunta, F., Fabiano, L., Ingram, D., & Goldstein, B. (2009). Phonological whole-word measures in three-year-old bilingual children and their monolingual peers. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 23(2), 156-175.

Bunta, F., & Ingram, D. (2007). The acquisition of speech rhythm by bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking four- and five-year-old children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50 (4), 999-1014. doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2007/070).

Bunta, F., Davidovich, I., & Ingram, D. (2006). The relationship between the phonological complexity of a bilingual child’s words and those of the target languages. International Journal of Bilingualism, 10 (1), 71-88.

Speech Learning in Bilingual Adults/Second Language Phonology

Santos Oliveira, D., Casenhiser, D. M., Hedrick, M., Teixeira, A., & Bunta, F. (2016). Effects of language experience on the discrimination of the Portuguese palatal lateral by nonnative listeners. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 30(8), 569-583. doi: 10.3109/02699206.2016.1152508.

Archila-Suerte, P., Bunta, F., & Hernandez, A. (2014). Speech sound learning depends on individual's ability, not just experience. The International Journal of Bilingualism. doi:10.1177/1367006914552206

Archila-Suerte, P., Zevin, J., Bunta, F., & Hernandez, A.E. (2012). Age of acquisition and proficiency in a second language independently influence the perception of non-native speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15(1), 190-201. doi: 10.1017/S1366728911000125.

Major, R. C., Fitzmaurice, S., Bunta, F., & Balasubramanian, C. (2005). Testing the effects of regional, ethnic, and international dialects of English on listening comprehension. Language Learning, 55 (1), 37-69.

Bunta, F. (2005). Reconsidering factors affecting the acquisition of novel second language phonemes: A study of Hungarian ESL learners. In James Cohen, Kara McAlister, Kellie Rolstad, & Jeffrey MacSwan (Eds.). The Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Bunta, F., & Major, R. C. (2004). An Optimality Theoretic account of Hungarian ESL learners acquisition of /ɛ/ and /æ/. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 42, 277-298. doi:10.1515/iral.2004.014.

Major, R. C., Fitzmaurice, S., Bunta, F., & Balasubramanian (2002). The effects of nonnative accents on listening comprehension: Implications for ESL assessment. TESOL Quarterly, 36, 173-190.

Expressive Language and Literacy

Francis, D. J., Rojas, R., Gusewski, S., Santi, K. L., Khalaf, S., Hiebert, L., & Bunta, F. (2019). Speaking and reading in two languages: On the identification of reading and language disabilities in Spanish‐speaking English learners. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 166, 15-41. doi: 10.1002/cad.20306

Santi, K.L., Khalaf, S., Bunta, F., Rojas, R., & Francis, D. J. (2019). IQ-Achievement discrepancy for identification of disabilities in Spanish-speaking English learners. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 166, 111-143. doi: 10.1002/cad.20304

Khalaf, S., Santi, K., Kulesz, P., Bunta, F., & Francis, D. J. (2019). Bilingual phonological awareness: Construct validation of grade 1 Spanish-speaking English learners. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 166, 79-110. doi: 10.1002/cad.20303

Francis, D., Santi, K., Khalaf, S., Bunta, F., Rojas, R., Gusewski, S., & Hiebert, L. (2019). Identification of disabilities in Spanish-speaking children in English-speaking contexts. In E. Grigorenko, E., Y. Shtyrov, & P. McCardle (Eds.), All about Language: Science, Theory, and Practice. Brookes Publishing.

Rojas, R., Iglesias, A., Bunta, F., Goldstein, B., Goldenberg, C., & Reese, L. (2015). Interlocutor differential effects on the expressive language skills of Spanish-speaking English learners. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi: 10.3109/17549507.2015.1081290.

Branum-Martin,  L, Tao, S., Garnaat, S., Bunta, F., & Francis, D. J. (2012). Meta-analysis of bilingual phonological awareness: Language, age, and psycholinguistic grain size. Journal of Educational Psychology, 104(4), 932-944. doi: 10.1037/a0027755

Other

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C., and the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2017). Tutorial: Speech assessment for multilingual children who do not speak the same language(s) as the speech-language pathologist. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26, 691-708. doi:10.1044/2017_AJSLP-15-0161

Bunta, F., Gósy, M., & Bóna, J. (2016). HU-LARSP: Assessing children's language skills in Hungarian. In Martin Ball, David Crystal, and Paul Fletcher (Eds.). Profiling Grammar: More Languages of LARSP (pp. 80-98). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

McLeod, S., Verdon, S., Bowen, C., and the International Expert Panel on Multilingual Children’s Speech (2013). International aspirations for speech-language pathologists’ practice with multilingual children with speech sound disorders: Development of a position paper. Journal of Communication Disorders, 46(4), 375–387. doi 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2013.04.003

Ingram, K., Bunta, F., & Ingram, D. (2004). Digital data collection and analysis: Application for clinical practice. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 35 (2), 112-122.

Bunta, F., Ingram, K., & Ingram, D. (2003). Bridging the digital divide: Aspects of computerized data collection and analysis for language professionals. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 17, 217-240.

Bunta, F., Gósy, M., & Bóna, J. (2019). Linguistic profiles. In Jack S. Damico and Martin Ball (Eds.). The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.