Listening with an Accent: Speech Perception in a Second Language by Late Bilinguals  

Oleh:

Leikin, Mark ; Ibrahim, Raphiq ; Eviatar, Zohar ; Sapir, Shimon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Psycholinguistics Research =>ada di SpringerLink 1972(vol.1) - Mutakhir; PROQUEST vol. 38 no. 5 (Oct. 2009), page 447-457.
Topik: Speech perception · Accent · Bilingualism · Hebrew · Arabic · Russian
Fulltext: vol. 38 issue 5 October 2009. p. 447 - 457.pdf (211.99KB)

Isi artikel

The goal of the present study was to examine functioning of late bilinguals in their second language. Specifically, we asked how native and non-native Hebrew speaking listeners perceive accented and native-accented Hebrew speech. To achieve this goal we used the gating paradigm to explore the ability of healthy late fluent bilinguals (Russian andArabic native speakers) to recognize words in L2 (Hebrew) when they were spoken in an accent like their own, a native accent (Hebrew speakers), or another foreign accent (American accent). The data revealed that for Hebrew speakers, there was no effect of accent, whereas for the two bilingual groups (Russian and Arabic native speakers), stimuli with an accent like their own and the native Hebrew accent, required significantly less phonological information than the other foreign accents. The results support the hypothesis that phonological assimilation works in a similar manner in these two different groups.

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