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

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

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 language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Publisher	International Phonetic Association
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9780852619414
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → …

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Conference	International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Period	10/08/15 → …

Keywords

English language
speech perception
phonemics
second language acquisition

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Peretokina, V, Best, CT, Tyler, MD, Shaw, JA & Di Biase, B 2015, Perception of English codas in various phonological and morphological contexts by Mandarin learners of English. in Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. International Phonetic Association, International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10/08/15.

Perception of English codas in various phonological and morphological contexts by Mandarin learners of English. / Peretokina, Valeria; Best, Catherine T.; Tyler, Michael D. et al.
Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. International Phonetic Association, 2015.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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