This study aims to describe the relationships between child-internal and child-external factors and the consonant accuracy of bilingual children. More specifically, the study looks at internal factors: expressive and receptive vocabulary, and external factors: language exposure and language status, of a group of 4-year-old bilingual Arabic–French children. We measured the consonant accuracy of the children by the percentage of correct consonants in a Picture-Naming Task and a Non-Word Repetition Task in each language. The results suggest a significant relationship between vocabulary and consonant accuracy. A cross-language correlation was observed between the expressive vocabulary level of the majority language (French) and the consonant accuracy of the minority language (Arabic). Also, a significant correlation was found between Arabic language exposure and Arabic consonant accuracy. Finally, consonant accuracy was significantly higher in French tasks than in Arabic, despite the individual differences of the children.

本研究旨在描述儿童内部和儿童外部因素与双语儿童辅音准确度之间的关系。更具体地说，该研究着眼于一组 4 岁双语阿拉伯语-法语儿童的内部因素：表达和接受词汇，以及外部因素：语言接触和语言状态。我们通过每种语言的图片命名任务和非单词重复任务中正确辅音的百分比来衡量儿童的辅音准确度。结果表明词汇和辅音准确度之间存在显着关系。在多数语言（法语）的表达词汇水平和少数语言（阿拉伯语）的辅音准确度之间观察到跨语言相关性。还，在阿拉伯语语言接触和阿拉伯语辅音准确度之间发现了显着的相关性。最后，尽管儿童存在个体差异，法语任务中的辅音准确度明显高于阿拉伯语任务。