Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners

This study reports the results of two experiments aimed at assessing the perceived similarity between English and Catalan vowels and diphthongs. Perceived similarity judgements were elicited from speakers of both languages involved and were compared to first language identification data from the sam...

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Autor: Cebrian, Juli|||0000-0003-1547-3145
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Idioma:inglés
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Palabra clave:Cues
Multilingualism
Language
Humans
Language Development
Phonetics
Speech Perception
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spelling Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listenersA study of reciprocal cross-linguistic similarityCebrian, Juli|||0000-0003-1547-3145CuesMultilingualismLanguageHumansLanguage DevelopmentPhoneticsSpeech PerceptionThis study reports the results of two experiments aimed at assessing the perceived similarity between English and Catalan vowels and diphthongs. Perceived similarity judgements were elicited from speakers of both languages involved and were compared to first language identification data from the same speakers. In experiment 1, a group of 27 naive Catalan listeners performed a perceptual assimilation task in which they were asked to identify Catalan and English vowels in terms of native categories and provide a goodness of fit rating. In experiment 2, a group of native speakers of Southern British English performed an adaptation of the same task. The results showed that most non-native vowels were consistently perceived as instances of a given native category, with varying degrees of goodness of fit. In a few cases, assimilation scores were very high in both experiments, pointing to the possibility of near-identical or shared categories. A few asymmetrical mappings were found, which were linked to the influence of language-specific cues such as the role of vowel duration in English. These results emphasize the importance of contrasting native and non-native perception and the potential of reciprocal approaches for making predictions about non-native perception and second language development.Acoustical Society of America 22021-01-0120212021-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501SMURhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_71e4c1898caa6e32info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/274878https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1121/10.0004257reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengAgencia Estatal de Investigación https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 FFI2017-88016-PAgència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003030 2017/SGR-34open accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest material està protegit per drets d'autor i/o drets afins. Podeu utilitzar aquest material en funció del que permet la legislació de drets d'autor i drets afins d'aplicació al vostre cas. Per a d'altres usos heu d'obtenir permís del(s) titular(s) de drets.https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2748782026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
A study of reciprocal cross-linguistic similarity
title Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
spellingShingle Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
Cebrian, Juli|||0000-0003-1547-3145
Cues
Multilingualism
Language
Humans
Language Development
Phonetics
Speech Perception
title_short Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
title_full Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
title_fullStr Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
title_full_unstemmed Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
title_sort Perception of English and Catalan vowels by English and Catalan listeners
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cebrian, Juli|||0000-0003-1547-3145
author Cebrian, Juli|||0000-0003-1547-3145
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author_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Cues
Multilingualism
Language
Humans
Language Development
Phonetics
Speech Perception
topic Cues
Multilingualism
Language
Humans
Language Development
Phonetics
Speech Perception
description This study reports the results of two experiments aimed at assessing the perceived similarity between English and Catalan vowels and diphthongs. Perceived similarity judgements were elicited from speakers of both languages involved and were compared to first language identification data from the same speakers. In experiment 1, a group of 27 naive Catalan listeners performed a perceptual assimilation task in which they were asked to identify Catalan and English vowels in terms of native categories and provide a goodness of fit rating. In experiment 2, a group of native speakers of Southern British English performed an adaptation of the same task. The results showed that most non-native vowels were consistently perceived as instances of a given native category, with varying degrees of goodness of fit. In a few cases, assimilation scores were very high in both experiments, pointing to the possibility of near-identical or shared categories. A few asymmetrical mappings were found, which were linked to the influence of language-specific cues such as the role of vowel duration in English. These results emphasize the importance of contrasting native and non-native perception and the potential of reciprocal approaches for making predictions about non-native perception and second language development.
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