Native dialect influences second-language vowel perception: Peruvian versus Iberian Spanish learners of Dutch

2012 ◽  
Vol 131 (5) ◽  
pp. EL406-EL412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Escudero ◽  
Daniel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
Native Dialect

scholarly journals Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

Languages ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Jaydene Elvin ◽  
Alba Tuninetti ◽  
Paola Escudero
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Acoustic Similarity ◽  
Categorization Task ◽  
Language Background ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
L2 Perception ◽  
Vowel Contrast ◽  
Native Dialect

Studies show that second language (L2) learners’ perceptual patterns differ depending on their native dialect (e.g., Chládková and Podlipský 2011; Escudero and Williams 2012). Likewise, speakers from the same native language background show different perceptual patterns depending on the dialect to which they are exposed (e.g., Escudero and Boersma 2004; Escudero and Chládková 2010). The Second Language Linguistic Perception model (L2LP; Escudero 2005) accounts for these differences, explicitly stating that the acoustic similarity between the native and target dialect affects L2 perception. This study investigated whether Californian English monolingual and Spanish–English bilingual listeners differ in their perception of European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels. Escudero et al. (2009a) showed that there were differences in the acoustic realization of vowels in BP and EP. Stressed vowels were longer in BP than in EP, with differences in vowel height observed for some vowels (e.g., /ɛ/ is higher in EP than in BP). According to the L2LP model, these acoustic differences between dialects will affect vowel perception; therefore, we predicted that there would be differences in the listeners’ perception of certain vowel contrasts in BP and EP. Participants completed a non-native categorization task and a discrimination task presented in the XAB format. The results from the non-native categorization task predicted differential vowel perception depending on both the dialect and vowel contrast that listeners heard, which were mostly confirmed with an interaction between dialect and contrast in the discrimination results. We contextualize these results with respect to models of L2 speech perception, highlighting that dialectal differences impact language perception and may influence later language learning.

Distinctiveness and Assimilation in Vowel Perception in a Second Language

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4534-4543
Author(s):  
Wei Hu ◽  
Sha Tao ◽  
Mingshuang Li ◽  
Chang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Vowel Identification ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
Perceptual Distance ◽  
Vowel Space ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
Chinese Counterpart ◽  
Vowel Categories

Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how the distinctive establishment of 2nd language (L2) vowel categories (e.g., how distinctively an L2 vowel is established from nearby L2 vowels and from the native language counterpart in the 1st formant [F1] × 2nd formant [F2] vowel space) affected L2 vowel perception. Method Identification of 12 natural English monophthongs, and categorization and rating of synthetic English vowels /i/ and /ɪ/ in the F1 × F2 space were measured for Chinese-native (CN) and English-native (EN) listeners. CN listeners were also examined with categorization and rating of Chinese vowels in the F1 × F2 space. Results As expected, EN listeners significantly outperformed CN listeners in English vowel identification. Whereas EN listeners showed distinctive establishment of 2 English vowels, CN listeners had multiple patterns of L2 vowel establishment: both, 1, or neither established. Moreover, CN listeners' English vowel perception was significantly related to the perceptual distance between the English vowel and its Chinese counterpart, and the perceptual distance between the adjacent English vowels. Conclusions L2 vowel perception relied on listeners' capacity to distinctively establish L2 vowel categories that were distant from the nearby L2 vowels.

First and second language vowel perception in early bilinguals

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bosch, Albert Costa, Nuria Sebastia
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Vowel Perception

scholarly journals Vowel perception: Effects of non-native language vs. non-native dialect

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Cutler ◽  
Roel Smits ◽  
Nicole Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Native Language ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
Native Dialect

scholarly journals The influence of second language vowels on foreign language vowel perception

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Anna Balas
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Selective Attention ◽  
Vowel Perception

This paper examines the limits of feature abstraction and the influence of second language vowels on foreign vowel perception (cf. Pajak and Levy 2014). Perception of Dutch vowels by Polish students of English and French and Dutch was assessed using categorization tasks with goodness ratings. Dutch front rounded vowels were identified predominantly as front vowels by learners of French and Dutch and as back vowels by learners of English.The results suggest that the hypothesis about selective attention to features should incorporate markedness and that experience with second language front rounded vowels is enough to trigger disentangling rounding from backness.

Effects of perceptual training on second language vowel perception and production

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1175-1199 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOLÈNE INCEOGLU
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
American English ◽  
Training Group ◽  
Auditory Training ◽  
Perceptual Training ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
Training Groups ◽  
Nasal Vowels ◽  
Facial Gestures

ABSTRACTThis study investigates whether audiovisual training leads to greater improvement in perception and production than auditory training. The participants (n= 60) were American English native speakers enrolled in intermediate French courses. They received audiovisual training, audio-only training, or no training, and were tested at pretest and posttest on their perception and production of French nasal vowels. The results suggest that both training groups improved significantly from the pretest to the posttest, but that the differences between the audiovisual and audio-only groups were not statistically significant. However, the production of the audiovisual training group improved significantly more than the production of the audio-only training group did, suggesting that seeing facial gestures leads to greater improvement in pronunciation.

scholarly journals Second language vowel perception.

1991 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 2252-2252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Vowel Perception
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