Uchihara, T;
Webb, S;
Saito, K;
Trofimovich, P;
(2022)
The Effects of Talker Variability and Frequency of Exposure on the Acquisition of Spoken Word Knowledge.
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
, 44
(2)
pp. 357-380.
10.1017/S0272263121000218.
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Abstract
Eighty Japanese learners of English as a foreign language encountered 40 target words in one of four experimental conditions (three encounters, six encounters, three encounters with talker variability, and six encounters with talker variability). A picture-naming test was conducted three times (pretest, immediate posttest, and delayed posttest) and elicited speech samples were scored in terms of form-meaning connection (spoken form recall) and word stress accuracy (stress placement accuracy and vowel duration ratio). Results suggested that frequency of exposure consistently promoted the recall of spoken forms, whereas talker variability was more closely related to the enhancement of word stress accuracy. These findings shed light on how input quantity (frequency) and quality (variability) affect different stages of lexical development and provide implications for vocabulary teaching.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Effects of Talker Variability and Frequency of Exposure on the Acquisition of Spoken Word Knowledge |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0272263121000218 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263121000218 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125959 |
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