Spoken word recognition in a second language
The importance of phonetic details
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11656323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Félix Desmeules‐Trudel (0000-0002-8611-2569, University of Toronto Mississauga; University of Ottawa, Canada, corresponding author), Tania S Zamuner (0000-0002-6576-1818, University of Ottawa) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 333-362 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Second language Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02676583211030604 |
| PMID | 37008069 |
| OpenAlex | W3187831919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 59 |
Spoken word recognition depends on variations in fine-grained phonetics as listeners decode speech. However, many models of second language (L2) speech perception focus on units such as isolated syllables, and not on words. In two eye-tracking experiments, we investigated how fine-grained phonetic details (i.e. duration of nasalization on contrastive and coarticulatory nasalized vowels in Canadian French) influenced spoken word recognition in an L2, as compared to a group of native (L1) listeners. Results from L2 listeners (English-native speakers) indicated that fine-grained phonetics impacted the recognition of words, i.e. they were able to use nasalization duration variability in a way similar to L1-French listeners, providing evidence that lexical representations can be highly specified in an L2. Specifically, L2 listeners were able to distinguish minimal word pairs (differentiated by the presence of phonological vowel nasalization in French) and were able to use variability in a way approximating L1-French listeners. Furthermore, the robustness of the French "nasal vowel" category in L2 listeners depended on age of exposure. Early bilinguals displayed greater sensitivity to some ambiguity in the stimuli than late bilinguals, suggesting that early bilinguals had greater sensitivity to small variations in the signal and thus better knowledge of the phonetic cue associated with phonological vowel nasalization in French, similarly to L1 listeners
Acoustics · Audiology · Duration (music · First language · Formant · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Mid vowel · Nasal vowel · Nasalization · Phonetics · Reading (process · Speech recognition · Vowel · Vowel length · Word recognition · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems
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Advancements of phonetics in the 21st century
Using allophonic variation in L2 word recognition
Prosodic Structural Effects on Non-Contrastive Coarticulatory Vowel Nasalization in L2 English by Korean Learners
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Generalized Additive Models
Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener’s native phonological system
Tracking the Time Course of Spoken Word Recognition Using Eye Movements
The Revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r)
Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing
Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access
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Nonnative and second-language speech perception
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Empirical Perspectives on Anaphora Resolution
Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition
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Implications of the declarative/procedural model for improving second language learning
Direct mapping of acoustics to phonology
Covariation of nasalization, tongue height, and breathiness in the realization of F1 of Southern French nasal vowels
Asymmetric mapping from phonetic to lexical representations in second-language listening
An acoustic and articulatory examination of the "oral" in "nasal
Influence of within-category tonal information in the recognition of Mandarin-Chinese words by native and non-native listeners
Phonotactic restrictions condition the realization of vowel nasality and nasal coarticulation
The influence of gradient foreign accentedness and listener experience on word recognition
Novel second-language words and asymmetric lexical access
Bilingual beginnings as a lens for theory development
A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops
A Coarticulatory Path to Sound Change
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |