Perception of English codas in various phonological and morphological contexts by Mandarin learners of English

Valeria Peretokina, Catherine T. Best, Michael D. Tyler, Jason A. Shaw, Bruno Di Biase

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    Abstract

    ![CDATA[The present study aims to explore how phonological, morphological and prosodic features of an utterance affect perception of English codas by Mandarin listeners. A phoneme detection task was conducted with the word-final target phoneme /s/ appearing utterance-medially or finally in various phonological (consonant cluster vs. singleton) and morphological (plural morpheme vs. coda of a stem word) contexts. The results indicate that the patterns of second language (L2) perception of /s/ are influenced by the utterance position and phonological complexity of the coda and cannot be explained exclusively by presence or absence of plurality in Mandarin.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
    PublisherInternational Phonetic Association
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)9780852619414
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    EventInternational Congress of Phonetic Sciences -
    Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Period10/08/15 → …

    Keywords

    • English language
    • speech perception
    • phonemics
    • second language acquisition

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