An analysis of the perception of stop consonants in bilinguals and monolinguals in different phonetic contexts: A range-based language cueing approach
Autor: | Elizabeth D. Schifano, Gianna M Duncan, Adrián García-Sierra, Melanie S. Fish |
---|---|
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
Linguistics and Language
Range (music) Speech perception Directing attention First language media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Voice-onset time Contrast (statistics) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Sensory Systems Language and Linguistics 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Perception 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Neuroscience of multilingualism 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common Cognitive psychology |
Zdroj: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 83:1878-1896 |
ISSN: | 1943-393X 1943-3921 |
DOI: | 10.3758/s13414-020-02183-z |
Popis: | Bilinguals' observed perceptual shift across language contexts for shared acoustic properties between their languages supports the idea that bilinguals, but not monolinguals, develop two phonemic representations for the same acoustic property. This phenomenon is known as the double phonemic boundary. This investigation replicated previous findings of bilinguals' double phonemic boundary across a series of go/no-go tasks while controlling for known confounding effects in speech perception (i.e., contrast effects) and differences in resource allocation between bilinguals and monolinguals (i.e., left-hand or right-hand response). Using a range-base language cueing approach, we designed 2 experiments. The first experiment tested whether a voice onset time (VOT) range representative of either Spanish or English phonetic categories can cue bilinguals, but not monolinguals, to use language-specific perceptual routines. The second experiment tested a VOT range with a mixture of Spanish and English phonetic categories to determine whether directing attention to a specific phonetic category can disambiguate the competition of the nonattended category. The results for Experiment 1 showed that bilinguals can rely on the distributional patterns of their native phonetic categories to activate specific language modes. Experiment 2 showed that attention can change the weight given to a native phonetic distinction. However, this process is restricted by the internal phonetic composition of the native language(s). |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Externí odkaz: |