An examination of the different ways that non-native phones may be perceptually assimilated as uncategorized

Mona M. Faris; Catherine T. Best; Michael D. Tyler

doi:10.1121/1.4939608

An examination of the different ways that non-native phones may be perceptually assimilated as uncategorized

Mona M. Faris, Catherine T. Best, Michael D. Tyler

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This study examined three ways that perception of non-native phones may be uncategorized relative to native (L1) categories: focalized (predominantly similar to a single L1 category), clustered (similar to > 2 L1 categories), and dispersed (not similar to any L1 categories). In an online study, Egyptian Arabic speakers residing in Egypt categorized and rated all Australian English vowels. Evidence was found to support focalized, clustered, and dispersed uncategorized assimilations. Second-language (L2) category formation for uncategorized assimilations is predicted to depend upon the degree of perceptual overlap between the sets of L1 categories listeners use in assimilating each phone within an L2 contrast.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	EL1-EL5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume	139
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4939608
Publication status	Published - 2016

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phonetics
second language acquisition
speech perception

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