Forced-Choice Analysis of Segmental Production by Chinese-Accented English Speakers.
This study describes the development of a minimal-pairs word list targeting phoneme contrasts that pose difficulty for Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language. The target phoneme inventory was compiled from analysis of phonetic transcriptions of about 800 mono- and polysyl...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 306 - 323 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
April 2005
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=507982199&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 507982199 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: April 2005 vid: 48 iid: 2 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 507982199 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/021) ppf: 306 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 456KB tig: atl: Forced-Choice Analysis of Segmental Production by Chinese-Accented English Speakers. aug: au: Rogers, Catherine L. Dalby, Jonathan su: English as a foreign language Intelligibility of speech English language Phonemics Bilingualism Psychology sug: subj: English as a foreign language Intelligibility of speech English language Phonemics Bilingualism Psychology ab: This study describes the development of a minimal-pairs word list targeting phoneme contrasts that pose difficulty for Mandarin Chinese-speaking learners of English as a second language. The target phoneme inventory was compiled from analysis of phonetic transcriptions of about 800 mono- and polysyllabic English words with examples of all the vowels, diphthongs, and syllable onsets and codas of the language. The Mandarin-specific minimal-pairs list derived from the phonetic transcription analyses contains 190 items. Tape recordings were made of 8 Mandarin speakers reading a randomized version of target items from the minimal-pairs list and a set of 20 sentences. Listeners who were native American English speakers judged the words in a forced-choice task and wrote down what they understood of the sentences. Correlations between listener responses on the forced-choice task and the sentence intelligibility scores showed differences in the strength of the relationship with sentence intelligibility across categories of minimal-pairs contrasts. Multiple regression analysis found listener responses on the minimal-pairs task to account for approximately 76% of the variance in speakers sentence intelligibility scores, showing that performance on the minimal pairs of the probe list does predict connected speech intelligibility. Analyses of individual contrasts indicate target phonemes most often misperceived by native listeners. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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