Native-language phonotactic constraints affect how well Chinese subjects perceive the word-final English / t / - / d / contrast  

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Flege, James Emil ; Wang, Chipin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Phonetics vol. 17 no. 4 (Oct. 1989), page 299-315.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JOP/17 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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A contrast between /t/ and /d/ exists in the initial but not the final position of Chinese words. This study examined identification of English word-final /t/ and /d/ tokens from which closure voicing and release burst cues had been removed. The performance of three Chinese groups was compared before, during, and after feedback training. The Cantonese subjects were expected to perform best because their Ll permits unreleased /p, t, k/ in word-final position, and the Mandarin subjects were expected to perform most poorly because their Ll permits no word-final obstruents. An intermediate level of performance was expected from the Shanghainese subjects, whose Ll permits /7/ word-finally. As predicted, the Cantonese subjects were significantly more sensitive to the English /t/-/d/ contrast than the Mandarin subjects, with the Shanghainese subjects showing an intermediate level of performance. The subjects in all three groups showed a significant increase in sensitivity as a result of the training. The increase in correct identifications averaged 25%. The results were interpreted to mean that native-language phonotactic constraints influence how syllables are processed. More specifically, it is concluded that the Cantonese subjects focused greater attention on the end of the consonant-vowel-consonant stimuli than the Mandarin subjects, which better enabled them to use remaining acoustic cues to the /t/-/d/ contrast such as Pi offset frequency.

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