Effects of phonological and phonetic factors on cross-language perception of approximants  

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Best, Catherine T. ; Strange, Winifred

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 20 no. 3 (Jul. 1992), page 305 - 330.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Past reserch suggest that thr degree of difficulty adults have with discrimminating non-native segmental contrasts varies considerably accross contrasts and languages. According to a recent proposal, this variation may be explained by differences in how the non-native phones are perceptually assimilated into native phoneme categories [Best, McRoberts & Sithole (1988) Journal of Experimental psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 345-360]. The present study examined that proposal by testing identification and discrimination of three synthetic series of American English approximant contrasts, presented to American English-speaking sucjects and native Japanese-speaking learners of english. The english approximant differ with respect to their phonemic status in Japanese, as well as in the phonetic details of the most similar Japanese phonemes. The perceptual assimilation hypotheses were strongly upheld in cross-language comparisons. Moreover, on the assumption that perceptual assimilation may be modified by learning the second language (L2), we also evaluated differences between subgroups of the Japanese subjects who had two different levels of English conversation experience. Those with intensive English conversation experince showed identification and discrimination patterns that were more similar (but not identical) to the Americans' performance than did those who had had little English experince.

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