Learning the Marshallese Phonological System: The Role of Cross-language Similarity on the Perception and Production of Secondary Articulations
Autor: | Sofía Carreño, Bradley B. Miller, Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Heather Willson Sturman |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
Předmět: |
060201 languages & linguistics
Consonant Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject First language Marshallese Phonetics 06 humanities and the arts General Medicine Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing Perception 0602 languages and literature Similarity (psychology) language Secondary articulation 0305 other medical science Psychology Orthography media_common |
Zdroj: | Language and Speech. 59:462-487 |
ISSN: | 1756-6053 0023-8309 |
Popis: | The current study determines the influence of cross-language similarity on native English speakers’ perception and production of Marshallese consonant contrasts. Marshallese provides a unique opportunity to study this influence because all Marshallese consonants have a secondary articulation. Results of discrimination and production tasks indicate that learners more easily acquire sounds if they are perceptually less similar to native language phonemes. In addition, the degree of cross-language similarity seemed to affect perception and production and may also interact with the effect of orthography. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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