Using allophonic variation in L2 word recognition
French listeners’ processing of English vowel nasalization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11656372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan 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, corresponding author), 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) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 865-886 |
| Publication date | 2023-08-24 |
| 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 | 10.1177/02676583231181472 |
| OpenAlex | W4386136308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 39 |
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
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Native Listening
Exemplar dynamics
Tracking the Time Course of Spoken Word Recognition Using Eye Movements
Spoken word recognition processes and the gating paradigm
Echoes of echoes? An episodic theory of lexical access.
The mental representation of lexical form
The TRACE model of speech perception
PsychoPy2
Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4
Nasalisation in English
Spoken word recognition in a second language
The perception of word boundaries in a second language
On the relationship between perception and production of L2 sounds
English Listeners’ Use of Distributional and Acoustic-Phonetic Cues to Liaison in French
Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Velopharyngeal Action in Phonetic and Phonological Nasalization
Phonetic and Phonological Processes
Neighborhood-conditioned patterns in phonetic detail
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |