Listening with an Accent: Speech Perception in a Second Language by Late Bilinguals
| Autor: | Mark Leikin, Zohar Eviatar, Raphiq Ibrahim, Shimon Sapir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Linguistics and Language Time Factors Speech perception Adolescent Multilingualism Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Pronunciation Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics Young Adult Phonetics Task Performance and Analysis Stress (linguistics) Humans Speech Neuroscience of multilingualism General Psychology Language Analysis of Variance Hebrew Phonology Semitic languages Linguistics language.human_language Acoustic Stimulation Pattern Recognition Physiological Linear Models Speech Perception language Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 38:447-457 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6555 0090-6905 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10936-009-9099-1 |
| Popis: | The goal of the present study was to examine functioning of late bilinguals in their second language. Specifically, we asked how native and non-native Hebrew speaking listeners perceive accented and native-accented Hebrew speech. To achieve this goal we used the gating paradigm to explore the ability of healthy late fluent bilinguals (Russian and Arabic native speakers) to recognize words in L2 (Hebrew) when they were spoken in an accent like their own, a native accent (Hebrew speakers), or another foreign accent (American accent). The data revealed that for Hebrew speakers, there was no effect of accent, whereas for the two bilingual groups (Russian and Arabic native speakers), stimuli with an accent like their own and the native Hebrew accent, required significantly less phonological information than the other foreign accents. The results support the hypothesis that phonological assimilation works in a similar manner in these two different groups. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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