@inproceedings{5299b78d45934f3096c49addfbb6aa98,
title = "Is more always better? : the perception of Dutch vowels by English versus Spanish listeners",
abstract = "The present study investigates Australian English (AusE) monolingual listeners' perception of non-native vowels in Dutch, a language with fewer vowels compared to AusE. AusE listeners' performance was compared to native monolingual Peruvian Spanish (PS) listeners whose L1 contains fewer vowels than Dutch. Results show that compared to PS listeners, AusE listeners were better at discriminating only one contrast, /{\'E}ª -{\^E} /. AusE listeners took full advantage of their vowel inventory size by mapping Dutch vowels across multiple English categories. Surprisingly, they also appear to duplicate the PS single category assimilation by mapping Dutch /{\'E}ª / and /i/ to both English /i/ and /{\'E}ª /.",
keywords = "Dutch language, vowels, speech perception, phonetics, acoustic",
author = "Samra Alispahic and Paola Escudero and Mulak, \{Karen E.\}",
year = "2014",
language = "English",
publisher = "Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association",
pages = "219--222",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2014), 2-5 December 2014, Rydges Latimer Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand",
note = "Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology ; Conference date: 02-12-2014",
}