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Phonological Asymmetry in Second‐Language Learning and Performance
Author(s) -
Neufeld Gerald G.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-1770.1988.tb00166.x
Subject(s) - psychology , perception , phonological awareness , cognitive psychology , linguistics , language acquisition , speech production , phonology , mathematics education , literacy , pedagogy , philosophy , neuroscience
This paper reports on the results of a study in which adult second‐language learners' performance on phonological perception tasks was contrasted with their performance in articulatory production. The project was a continuation of earlier work in which the writer found no evidence for language‐learning deficits at the level of perception and notable asymmetry between phonological perception and articulatory production in L2. The objectives of the work discussed here were to take a closer look at some of the factors that might account for asymmetry and to see what implications our additional findings might have for the continuing debate about developmentally induced language‐learning disabilities.