Using allophonic variation in L2 word recognition

French listeners’ processing of English vowel nasalization

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ID11656372
AutoresMegan M Dailey (0000-0002-1685-8015, LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Paris Sciences et Lettres (ENS – PSL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France, autor de correspondencia), Camille Straboni (0009-0000-6648-7657, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Paris Sciences et Lettres (ENS – PSL), France), Sharon Peperkamp (0000-0001-5985-8878, LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure – Paris Sciences et Lettres (ENS – PSL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France)
Año2023
Volumen40
Número4
Páginas865-886
Fecha de publicación2023-08-24
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSecond language Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0267-6583 • E-ISSN: 1477-0326
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02676583231181472
OpenAlexW4386136308
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas39

During spoken word processing, native (L1) listeners use allophonic variation to predictively rule out word competitors and speed up word recognition. There is some evidence that second language (L2) learners develop an awareness of allophonic distributions in their L2, but whether they use their knowledge to facilitate word recognition online, like native listeners do, is largely unknown. In an offline gating experiment and an online eye-tracking experiment in the visual world paradigm, we compare advanced French learners of English and a control group of L1 English listeners on their processing of English vowel nasalization during spoken word recognition. In the gating task, the French listeners’ performance did not differ from that of the English ones. The eye-tracking results show that French listeners used the allophonic distribution in the same way as English listeners, although they were not as fast. Together, these results reveal that L2 learners can develop novel processing strategies using sounds in allophonic distribution to facilitate spoken word recognition

Linguistics · Nasalization · Reading (process · Speech recognition · Variation (astronomy · Vowel · Word (group theory · Word processing · Word recognition · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech and dialogue systems