Identification of English vowels by non-native listeners
Effects of listeners’ experience of the target dialect and talkers’ language background
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11656359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shinsook Lee (0000-0002-6839-7126, Korea University, South Korea), Jaekoo Kang (0000-0002-9499-9008, City University of New York), Hosung Nam (0000-0002-1523-346X, Korea University, South Korea; Haskins Laboratories, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 449-475 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-19 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0267658320965648 |
| OpenAlex | W3092814987 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
This study investigates how second language (L2) listeners’ perception is affected by two factors: the listeners’ experience with the target dialect – North American English (NAE) vs. Standard Southern British English (SSBE) – and talkers’ language background: native vs. non-native talkers; i.e. interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB) talker effects. Two groups of native-Korean-speaking listeners with different target English dialects – L1-Korean listeners of English as a second language (ESL) in the USA and L1-Korean ESL listeners in the UK – were tested on the identification of 12 English vowels spoken by native and non-native (L1-Korean) talkers of NAE and SSBE. The results show that the L2 listeners’ experience with the target dialect had a significant impact on the accuracy of their identification of the L2 vowels. However, no ISIB-talker effects were observed for the L1-Korean listener groups regardless of the listeners’ differences in experience with the two varieties of English. The study adds to the L2 sound acquisition literature and the ISIB literature by looking into L2 learners’ identification of L2 vowels, taking into account the learners’ differences in experience with two standard varieties of English (NAE and SSBE) and the interaction between the learners’ experience with the two varieties and ISIB-talker effects. It also sheds some light on the issue of adult L2 learners’ ability to learn the vowels of a new target variety
Comprehension approach · First language · Interlanguage · Language education · Language Experience Approach · Linguistics · Perception · Second language · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech and Audio Processing
Accents of English
Acoustic characteristics of the vowel systems of six regional varieties of American English
Bridging the Gap Between L2 Speech Perception Research and Phonological Theory
Human adults and human infants show a “perceptual magnet effect” for the prototypes of speech categories, monkeys do not
Exemplar dynamics
The effects of contact on native language pronunciation in an L2 migrant setting
Native Italian speakers’ perception and production of English vowels
Plasticity in vowel perception and production
The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit
The Mutual Intelligibility of L2 Speech
LmerTest Package
The Oxford Handbook of Language Attrition
Homebodies and army brats
The Development of Speech Perception
Handbook of Dialects and Language Variation
Teaching American English Pronunciation
A sensitive period for the acquisition of a nonnative phonological system
Language change and linguistic inquiry in a world of multicompetence
Phonetic drift in Spanish-English bilinguals
Perceptual assimilation of American English vowels by Japanese listeners
The interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for native speakers of Mandarin
Effects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception of English vowels
A novelty effect in phonetic drift of the native language
Free classification of American English dialects by native and non-native listeners
Amount of native-language (L1) use affects the pronunciation of an L2
Free classification of regional dialects of American English
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |