Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts

While empirical studies have shown the beneficial role of observing and producing hand gestures mimicking pitch features in the learning of L2 tonal or intonational contrasts, mixed results have been obtained for the use of gestures encoding durational contrasts at the perceptual level. This study i...

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Autores: Li, Peng, Baills, Florence, Prieto, Pilar
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000054
https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469488
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Palabra clave:Vowel-length contrasts
Durational hand gestures
Visuospatial gestures
Speech perception
Speech production
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spelling Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length ContrastsLi, PengBaills, FlorencePrieto, PilarVowel-length contrastsDurational hand gesturesVisuospatial gesturesSpeech perceptionSpeech productionWhile empirical studies have shown the beneficial role of observing and producing hand gestures mimicking pitch features in the learning of L2 tonal or intonational contrasts, mixed results have been obtained for the use of gestures encoding durational contrasts at the perceptual level. This study investigates the potential benefits of horizontal hand-sweep gestures encoding durational features for boosting the perception and production of nonnative vowel-length contrasts. In a between-subjects experiment with a pretest–posttest design, 50 Catalan participants without any knowledge of Japanese practiced perceiving and producing minimal pairs of Japanese disyllabic words featuring vowel-length contrasts in one of two conditions, namely with gestures or without them. Pretest and posttest consisted of the completion of identical vowel-length identification and imitation tasks. The results showed that while participants improved equally at posttest across the two conditions in the identification task, the Gesture group obtained a larger improvement than the No Gesture group in the imitation task. These results corroborate the claim that producing hand gestures encoding prosodic properties of speech may help naïve learners to learn novel phonological contrasts in a foreign language.This research was supported by funding from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2015-66533-P) and the Generalitat de Catalunya projects (2014 SGR-925 and 2017 SGR-971).Cambridge University Press2020info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000054https://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469488http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/469488reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//FFI2015-66533-PVersió postprint del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263120000054Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020, vol. 42, núm. 5, p. 1015-1039(c) The Authors, 2020info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10459.1/4694882026-05-29T05:05:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
title Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
spellingShingle Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
Li, Peng
Vowel-length contrasts
Durational hand gestures
Visuospatial gestures
Speech perception
Speech production
title_short Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
title_full Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
title_fullStr Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
title_full_unstemmed Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
title_sort Observing and Producing Durational Hand Gestures Facilitates the Pronunciation of Novel Vowel-Length Contrasts
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Li, Peng
Baills, Florence
Prieto, Pilar
author Li, Peng
author_facet Li, Peng
Baills, Florence
Prieto, Pilar
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Prieto, Pilar
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Vowel-length contrasts
Durational hand gestures
Visuospatial gestures
Speech perception
Speech production
topic Vowel-length contrasts
Durational hand gestures
Visuospatial gestures
Speech perception
Speech production
description While empirical studies have shown the beneficial role of observing and producing hand gestures mimicking pitch features in the learning of L2 tonal or intonational contrasts, mixed results have been obtained for the use of gestures encoding durational contrasts at the perceptual level. This study investigates the potential benefits of horizontal hand-sweep gestures encoding durational features for boosting the perception and production of nonnative vowel-length contrasts. In a between-subjects experiment with a pretest–posttest design, 50 Catalan participants without any knowledge of Japanese practiced perceiving and producing minimal pairs of Japanese disyllabic words featuring vowel-length contrasts in one of two conditions, namely with gestures or without them. Pretest and posttest consisted of the completion of identical vowel-length identification and imitation tasks. The results showed that while participants improved equally at posttest across the two conditions in the identification task, the Gesture group obtained a larger improvement than the No Gesture group in the imitation task. These results corroborate the claim that producing hand gestures encoding prosodic properties of speech may help naïve learners to learn novel phonological contrasts in a foreign language.
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Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020, vol. 42, núm. 5, p. 1015-1039
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