Interlingual indentification and the role of foreign language experience in L2 vowel perception  

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Flege, James Emil ; Ocke-Schwen, Bohn

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Applied Psycholinguistics vol. 11 no. 3 (1990), page 303-328.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/APP/11 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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This article examines the perception of four English vowels (Ii, I, e, rei) by adult native speakers of German. From the standpoint of German, it appears that English Ii, I, e/ are perceptually similar, if not identical, to German Ii, I, el, whereas lrel is a "new" vowel for German learners of English. The role of foreign language experience in the perception of second language vowels was examined through labeling responses to members of synthetic continua (beat-bit, bet-bat) in which vowel duration and spectrum were varied factorily. The subjects were relatively experienced and inexperienced second language (L2) learners and a monolingual English control group. The results suggest that L2 experience did not affect perception for the continuum with the two "similar" vowels Iii and III. However, for the continuum involving the "new" vowel lrel, the experienced Germans more closely resembled the native English speakers than the inexperienced Germans. The predominant use of duration cues in differentiating the English le/-/rel contrast by the inexperienced Germans suggested that when spectral cues are insufficient to differentiate an L2 vowel contrast, duration will be used.

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