Cross-Language Perception of Japanese Vowel Length Contrasts: Comparison of Listeners From Different First Language Backgrounds.
Purpose: The purpose of this research was to compare the perception of Japanese vowel length contrasts by 4 groups of listeners who differed in their familiarity with length contrasts in their first language (L1; i.e., American English, Italian, Japanese, and Thai). Of the 3 nonnative groups, native...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 805 - 815 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=96665597&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 96665597 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: Jun2014 vid: 57 iid: 3 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 96665597 10.1044/2014_JSLHR-S-12-0416 ppf: 805 ppct: 10 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 604KB tig: atl: Cross-Language Perception of Japanese Vowel Length Contrasts: Comparison of Listeners From Different First Language Backgrounds. aug: au: Kimiko Tsukada Yukari Hirata Roengpitya, Rungpat affil: Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. su: Language acquisition Japanese people Research funding Speech evaluation Speech perception Statistics Vowels Data analysis Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Language acquisition Japanese people Research funding Speech evaluation Speech perception Statistics Vowels Data analysis Descriptive statistics keyword: (un)familiar contrasts cross-language speech perception Italian Japanese Thai vowel length contrasts (un)familiar contrasts cross-language speech perception Italian Japanese Thai vowel length contrasts ab: Purpose: The purpose of this research was to compare the perception of Japanese vowel length contrasts by 4 groups of listeners who differed in their familiarity with length contrasts in their first language (L1; i.e., American English, Italian, Japanese, and Thai). Of the 3 nonnative groups, native Thai listeners were expected to outperform American English and Italian listeners, because vowel length is contrastive in their L1. Native Italian listeners were expected to demonstrate a higher level of accuracy for length contrasts than American English listeners, because the former are familiar with consonant (but not vowel) length contrasts (i.e., singleton vs. geminate) in their L1. Method: A 2-alternative forced-choice AXB discrimination test that included 125 trials was administered to all the participants, and the listeners’ discrimination accuracy (d’ ) was reported. Results: As expected, Japanese listeners were more accurate than all 3 nonnative groups in their discrimination of Japanese vowel length contrasts. The 3 nonnative groups did not differ from one another in their discrimination accuracy despite varying experience with length contrasts in their L1. Only Thai listeners were more accurate in their length discrimination when the target vowel was long than when it was short. Conclusion: Being familiar with vowel length contrasts in L1 may affect the listeners’ cross-language perception, but it does not guarantee that their L1 experience automatically results in efficient processing of length contrasts in unfamiliar languages. The extent of success may be related to how length contrasts are phonetically implemented in listeners’ L1. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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