Incongruence in second language vowel perception and production

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (4) ◽  
pp. 3162-3162
Author(s):  
Ron I. Thomson ◽  
Murray J. Munro
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Vowel Perception

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 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

scholarly journals Explaining individual variation in L2 perception: Rounded vowels in English learners of German

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT MAYR ◽  
PAOLA ESCUDERO
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
English Learners ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Language Mapping ◽  
Perceptual Development ◽  
Vowel Perception ◽  
L2 Perception ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Speech Research ◽  
Further Development

Most empirical research in L2 vowel perception focuses on the development of groups of learners. However, recent studies indicate that individual learners' developmental paths in L2 vowel perception may not be uniform (e.g., Escudero, 2001; Escudero and Boersma, 2004; Morrison, 2009). The aim of the present study is to add to this line of research by investigating (1) whether individual English learners of German follow different paths in their perceptual development of six rounded German vowels, and (2) whether the observed patterns are explicable on the basis of Escudero's (2005)Second-Language Linguistic Perception(L2LP) model. A cross-language perceptual assimilation experiment revealed that learners’ assimilation of L2 sounds to native categories is indeed highly diverse, yet systematic. Importantly, these cross-language mapping patterns largely predict the learners’ further development in L2 vowel perception, as assessed in a forced-choice identification task. Implications for explanatory frameworks in second-language speech research are discussed.

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