Spectral Dynamics in L1 and L2 Vowel Perception

Schwartz, Geoffrey; Aperliński, Grzegorz; Jekiel, Mateusz; Malarski, Kamil

dc.contributor.author	Schwartz, Geoffrey	en
dc.contributor.author	Aperliński, Grzegorz	en
dc.contributor.author	Jekiel, Mateusz	en
dc.contributor.author	Malarski, Kamil	en
dc.date.accessioned	2016-07-20T08:55:16Z
dc.date.available	2016-07-20T08:55:16Z
dc.date.issued	2016-06-24	en
dc.identifier.issn	1731-7533	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18851
dc.description.abstract	This paper presents a study of L1 and L2 vowel perception by Polish learners of English. Employing the Silent Center paradigm (e.g. Strange et al. 1983), by which listeners are presented with different portions of a vowel, a force choice identification task was carried out. Due to differences in the vowel systems of the two languages, it was hypothesized that stimulus type should have minimal effects for L1 Polish vowel perception since Polish vowels are relatively stable in quality. In L2 English, depending on proficiency level, listeners were expected to adopt a more dynamic approach to vowel identification and show higher accuracy rates on the SC tokens. That is, listeners were expected to attend more to dynamic formant cues, or vowel inherent spectral change (VISC; see e.g. Morrison and Assmann 2013) in vowel perception. Results for identification accuracy for the most part were consistent with these hypotheses. Implications of VISC for the notion of cross-language phonetic similarity, crucial to models of L2 speech acquisition, are also discussed.	en
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Research in Language;14	en
dc.rights	This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0	en
dc.subject	Vowel perception	en
dc.subject	dynamic specification	en
dc.subject	Polish	en
dc.subject	L2 English	en
dc.title	Spectral Dynamics in L1 and L2 Vowel Perception	en
dc.page.number	61-77	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Schwartz, Geoffrey - Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Aperliński, Grzegorz - Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Jekiel, Mateusz - Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Malarski, Kamil - Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu	en
dc.identifier.eissn	2083-4616
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dc.contributor.authorEmail	Schwartz, Geoffrey - geoff@wa.amu.edu.pl	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	Aperliński, Grzegorz - gaperlinski@wa.amu.edu.pl	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	Jekiel, Mateusz - mjekiel@wa.amu.edu.pl	en
dc.contributor.authorEmail	Malarski, Kamil - kmalarski@wa.amu.edu.pl	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/rela-2016-0004	en

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