eprintid: 10157599
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creators_name: Kogan, Vita V
creators_name: Mora, Joan C
title: The effects of individual differences in native perception on discrimination of a novel non-native contrast
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: D92
divisions: B03
keywords: speech perception, second language acquisition, category compactness
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abstract: Native (L1) phonetic categories can constrain the perception of non-native contrasts which deviate from the listener’s L1 (Best & Tyler, 2007; Flege, 1995). Yet, some individuals are remarkably successful at accurately perceiving non-native sounds (e.g., Bongaerts, van Summeren, Planken, & Schils, 1997). We hypothesize that compact L1 categories give an initial advantage in distinguishing non-native contrasts. Sixty-eight Spanish monolinguals were tested on the degree of compactness of their native category /i/, measured through a goodness-of-fit rating task. Participants listened to synthesized variants of the Spanish /i/ vowel (differing in F1, F2, or both) and rated them as either good or bad exemplars of their representation of this category. An individual /i/ compactness index was calculated for each participant and related to the individual perceived dissimilarity score for the novel Russian contrast /i – ɨ/. The Russian contrast /i – ɨ/ is a problematic contrast to perceive for Spanish speakers due to the absence of /ɨ/ in the Spanish vowel inventory, a sound acoustically very similar to /i/. In this study, the compactness of the L1 category /i/ weakly predicted perceptual sensitivity (dissimilarity scores) for the Russian contrast /i – ɨ/.
date: 2022-10-05
date_type: published
publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
official_url: https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6431
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1982155
doi: 10.16995/labphon.6431
lyricists_name: Kogan, Vita
lyricists_id: VKOGA34
actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian
actors_id: DKALI47
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Laboratory Phonology
volume: 24
number: 1
issn: 1868-6354
citation:        Kogan, Vita V;    Mora, Joan C;      (2022)    The effects of individual differences in native perception on discrimination of a novel non-native contrast.                   Laboratory Phonology , 24  (1)      10.16995/labphon.6431 <https://doi.org/10.16995/labphon.6431>.       Green open access   
 
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