@inproceedings{d71d3c595ca94d61a5816d488e5661aa,
title = "Can Australian English listeners learn non-native vowels via distributional learning?",
abstract = "Inconsistent findings have been reported for distributional learning of vowels, possibly due to interference from learners' native phonological (L1) categories. Native Australian-English (AusE) listeners were exposed to unimodal and bimodal distributions of a continuum spanning Dutch /{\'E}{\textquoteleft}/-/a{\"E}/, which is perceived moderately well by AusE listeners. Despite sustaining learners' attention during the training phase (c.f. passive training), the distribution groups did not differ in their pre-post vowel discrimination, suggesting a lack of distributional learning. Our results imply that learners do not benefit from such rapid learning of contrasts that are perceived with high accuracy due to learners' L1 categories.",
keywords = "vowels, second language acquisition, speech perception, Dutch language",
author = "Ong, {Jia Hoong} and Josephine Terry and Paola Escudero",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
publisher = "Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association",
pages = "289--292",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 6-9 December 2016, Parramatta, Australia",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology ; Conference date: 06-12-2016",
}