Perceiving Vowels in a Second Language  

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Flege, James Emil ; MacKay, Ian R.A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Studies in Second Language Acquisition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST Th.2001-) vol. 26 no. 1 (Mar. 2004), page 1-34.
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This study examines the perception of English vowels by native speakers of Italian. In two preliminary experiments, Italian university students who had lived in Canada for 3 months were found to have difficulty discriminating /D/-/A/, Ie/-Ice/, and /iI-/I/ because they often identified both members of each contrast as instances of a single Italian vowel. The participants in two other experiments, long-time residents of Canada, were assigned to groups based on their age of arrival in Canada from Italy (early vs. late) and percentage of first language (L 1) use (high L 1 use vs. low L 1 use). Experiment 3 focused on the discrimination of /DJ-/A/, /r:./-/ce/, and /iI-/I/, and experiment 4 examined the discrimination of correct from incorrect realizations of /II and /iI. In both experiments, the early learners obtained higher discrimination scores than the late learners, and low-L 1-use participants obtained higher scores than high-L 1-use participants. Most important, the early learners who used Italian often (early high), but not the early learners who used Italian seldom (early low), were found to differ from native speakers of English in perceiving English vowels. These results suggest two important conclusions regarding second language (L2) perceptual learning: Learning an L2 in childhood does not guarantee a nativelike perception of L2 vowels, nor does the establishment of a sound system for the L 1 preclude a functionally nativelike perception of L2 vowels. Another important

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