Vowel inventory size matters: assessing cue-weighting in L2 vowel perception | Zendy

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Vowel inventory size matters: assessing cue-weighting in L2 vowel perception

Author(s) -

Hanna Kivistö de Souza,

Angélica Carlet,

Izabela Anna Jułkowska,

Anabela Rato

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

ilha do desterro a journal of english language literatures in english and cultural studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.223

H-Index - 6

eISSN - 2175-8026

pISSN - 0101-4846

DOI - 10.5007/2175-8026.2017v70n3p33

Subject(s) - vowel , psychology , perception , danish , diphthong , mid vowel , duration (music) , catalan , weighting , audiology , linguistics , vowel length , speech perception , formant , medicine , art , philosophy , literature , neuroscience , radiology

To examine whether L1 vowel inventory size could be a contributing factor to the use of temporal cues in L2 vowel perception, this study assessed the perception of English /i-ɪ/ by 66 learners of four different L1s: Danish, Portuguese, Catalan and Russian. The L2 learners performed a forced-choice identification task containing natural and duration-manipulated stimuli. Findings suggest that the participants’ over-reliance on duration cues seem to be partially related to their L1 vowel inventory size. The participants with the greatest L1 vowel inventory (Danish) demonstrated the most native-like vowel perception and the participants with the smallest L1 vowel inventory (Russian) over-relied on duration cues more than the other learners. Interestingly, the participants with somewhat comparable L1 vowel inventories (Portuguese and Catalan) performed similarly

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