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Effect of multi-lingualism on perception of short and long vowels in Arabic and Japanese

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Title: Effect of multi-lingualism on perception of short and long vowels in Arabic and Japanese
Related: International Conference on Phonetic Sciences (17th : 2011) (17 - 21 August 2011 : Hong Kong)
Related: Lee, Wai-Sum et al.. Proceedings of the 17th international congress of phonetic sciences ICPhS XVII, p.2034-2037
Related: http://www.icphs2011.hk/resources/OnlineProceedings/RegularSession/Tsukada/Tsukada.pdf
Publisher: Hong Kong : City University
Date: 2011
Author/Creator: Tsukada, Kimiko
Description: This study compared cross-language speech perception of vowel length contrasts in Arabic and Japanese by two groups of listeners whose first language (L1) was either Cantonese (C) or Korean (K). Unlike Arabic or Japanese, C and K do not use vowel length contrastively. One group (CK+J) had experience learning Japanese as a foreign language while the other (CK) did not. The question of interest was if Japanese learning experience separated the two groups in their perception of Arabic as well as Japanese vowel length contrasts. The effect of learning Japanese was negligible for CK+J who participated in this study. Further, it appeared that learning Japanese had a somewhat negative effect on the listeners’ perception of Arabic contrasts. The pattern of results obtained may reflect a temporary and transient nature of listeners’ interlanguage and has implications for adults’ speech learning capabilities.
Description: 4 page(s)
Subject Keyword: multilingual
Subject Keyword: cross-language speech perception
Subject Keyword: vowel length
Subject Keyword: Cantonese
Subject Keyword: Korean
Resource Type: conference paper
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of International Studies

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/162874
Identifier: mq_res-20120402-093737
Language: eng
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