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Evidence for language transfer leading to a perceptual advantage for non-native listeners
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Phonological transfer from the native language is a common problem for non-native speakers that has repeatedly been shown to result in perceptual deficits vis-a-vis native speakers. It was hypothesized, however, that transfer could help, rather than hurt, if it resulted in a beneficial bias. Due to differences in pronunciation norms between Korean and English, Koreans in the U.S. were predicted to be better than Americans at perceiving unreleased stops--not only in their native language (Korean) but also in their non-native language (English). In three experiments, Koreans were found to be significantly more accurate than Americans at identifying unreleased stops in Korean, at identifying unreleased stops in English, and at discriminating between the presence and absence of an unreleased stop in English. Taken together, these results suggest that cross-linguistic transfer is capable of boosting speech perception by non-natives beyond native levels.
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P Philology. Linguistics; PE English; PI Oriental languages and literatures
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URL: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18996/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18996/1/ChangMishler_JASA132.pdf https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4747615
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Rapid and multifaceted effects of second-language learning on first-language speech production
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Phonetics vs. phonology in loanword adaptation: Revisiting the role of the bilingual
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Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Theoretical Approaches to Argument Structure
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