Phonetic and orthographic cues are weighted in speech sound perception by second language speakers: evidence from Greek speakers of English.
Name:
GiannakopoulouA,Phoneticandort ...
Size:
746.3Kb
Format:
PDF
Description:
main article
Issue Date
2016-05-01Subjects
phonetic cuesorthographic cues
auditory speech perception
speech communication
L2 learning
Q110 Applied Linguistics
second language
second language listening
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Second language (L2) learning can involve processing of speech-sound contrasts that have multiple phonetic cues (e.g. Iverson et al., 2003). This can be particularly difficult for foreign-language learners especially if the cues are weighted differently in the foreign and native languages (e.g., Giannakopoulou et al., 2011, 2013). The orthographic representation of words is suggested to also interfere with speech sound perception in way of presenting additional cues for the second language learner. Greek child and adult speakers of English were studied to determine on what basis they are making perceptual identification between English vowels with the use of pictures as visual stimuli. Performance was impaired for Greek speakers across all tasks but worst for Greek speakers for the picture stimuli task. Findings suggest a 'link' between orthography and perceptual identification serving as an additional cue for L2 speakers.Citation
Giannakopoulou A, Uther M, Ylinen S (2016) 'Phonetic and orthographic cues are weighted in speech sound perception by second language speakers: evidence from Greek speakers of English.', Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 20 (1).Publisher
Acoustical Society of AmericaAdditional Links
http://asa.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1121/2.0000206Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1939-800XEISSN
1939-800XSponsors
This study was funded by the School of Social Sciences, Brunel University (UK) and the Research Centre for Applied Psychology (RCAP), University of Bedfordshire (UK). The contribution of Ylinen S was supported by the Academy of Finland (project 274058).ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1121/2.0000206
Scopus Count
Collections
The following license files are associated with this item:
- Creative Commons
Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as Yellow - can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)