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The Perception And Production Of German Vowel Contrasts By Native Speakers Of American English
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Book Synopsis The Perception and Production of German Vowel Contrasts by Native Speakers of American English by : Brooke Sahlin
Download or read book The Perception and Production of German Vowel Contrasts by Native Speakers of American English written by Brooke Sahlin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sound perception and production in a foreign language by : Nimz, Katharina
Download or read book Sound perception and production in a foreign language written by Nimz, Katharina and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study addresses the question of how German vowels are perceived and produced by Polish learners of German as a Foreign Language. It comprises three main experiments: a discrimination experiment, a production experiment, and an identification experiment. With the exception of the discrimination task, the experiments further investigated the influence of orthographic marking on the perception and production of German vowel length. It was assumed that explicit markings such as the Dehnungs-h ("lengthening h") could help Polish GFL learners in perceiving and producing German words more correctly. The discrimination experiment with manipulated nonce words showed that Polish GFL learners detect pure length differences in German vowels less accurately than German native speakers, while this was not the case for pure quality differences. The results of the identification experiment contrast with the results of the discrimination task in that Polish GFL learners were better at judging incorrect vowel length than incorrect vowel quality in manipulated real words. However, orthographic marking did not turn out to be the driving factor and it is suggested that metalinguistic awareness can explain the asymmetry between the two perception experiments. The production experiment supported the results of the identification task in that lengthening h did not help Polish learners in producing German vowel length more correctly. Yet, as far as vowel quality productions are concerned, it is argued that orthography does influence L2 sound productions because Polish learners seem to be negatively influenced by their native grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences. It is concluded that it is important to differentiate between the influence of the L1 and L2 orthographic system. On the one hand, the investigation of the influence of orthographic vowel length markers in German suggests that Polish GFL learners do not make use of length information provided by the L2 orthographic system. On the other hand, the vowel quality data suggest that the L1 orthographic system plays a crucial role in the acquisition of a foreign language. It is therefore proposed that orthography influences the acquisition of foreign sounds, but not in the way it was originally assumed.
Book Synopsis Longitudinal Development of Second Language German Vowels by : Mary Grantham O'Brien
Download or read book Longitudinal Development of Second Language German Vowels written by Mary Grantham O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Perception and Production of German Vowels by Native English Speakers by : Amanda Plante
Download or read book The Perception and Production of German Vowels by Native English Speakers written by Amanda Plante and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Effect of First Language Dialect Vowel Mergers on Second Language Perception and Production by : Christine Elaine Gardner
Download or read book The Effect of First Language Dialect Vowel Mergers on Second Language Perception and Production written by Christine Elaine Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous second language (L2) acquisition research has assumed that L2 learners from a common first language (L1) have the same problems in an L2, ignoring the potential impact of a speaker's L1 dialect on L2 acquisition. This study examines the effects of L1 dialect on the acquisition of L2 German vowels. In particular, this thesis investigates two questions: 1) Do speakers from L1 dialects with vowel mergers perceive or produce vowel contrasts in the L1 and/or L2 differently than speakers from dialect areas without the same mergers? and 2) Are subjects' patterns of L1 perception or production paralleled in the L2? This thesis focuses on the vowel contrasts "pin"-"pen," "fail"-"fell," and "pool"-"pull"-"pole," which are merged (i.e., neutralized) in some environments in the Mississippi dialect, such that words like "him" and "hem" are heard or produced as the same word. Two groups of subjects participated: students from The University of Mississippi (the merging group) and students from Brigham Young University (BYU) (the non-merging group). Subjects completed a perceptual task and a production task. The perception task was a forced-choice identification task in which subjects heard English and German words and indicated which word they heard. In the production task, subjects read aloud German and English sentences. Results indicate that BYU subjects were significantly better than UMiss subjects at perceiving many vowel contrasts in English and German. Additionally, some perceptual patterns seemed to transfer to the L2, e.g., /in/ and /en/, were identified with similar accuracy in English and in German. In production, the groups differed significantly from each other in their production of many vowel contrasts, while acoustic analysis found no production mergers for either group in English or German. In two case studies, perception results and production results (as found by native speaker judgments), showed that vowel contrasts merged in English were also problematic in L2 German, though the problematic vowel was not necessarily the same. In sum, the UMiss speakers with mergers in their L1 dialect appeared to face different challenges than the BYU speakers when perceiving and producing German vowel contrasts. Results have implications for the L2 classroom and L2 research, suggesting that instructors may need different teaching strategies for speakers from merging dialects.
Book Synopsis The Influence of Consonants on Native and Non-native Vowel Production by : Anja K. Steinlen
Download or read book The Influence of Consonants on Native and Non-native Vowel Production written by Anja K. Steinlen and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cross-language Perception of German Vowels by Speakers of American English by : Lore Katharina Gerti Schultheiss
Download or read book Cross-language Perception of German Vowels by Speakers of American English written by Lore Katharina Gerti Schultheiss and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focuses on how the cross-language perception of German vowels by native speakers of North American English differs based on various levels of classroom instruction and experience in a German-speaking country. Of special interest is whether more advanced students and those with target country experience have a different cross-language perception of German vowels from naive or less-experienced listeners. It further examines how English-speaking learners perceive German sounds that are not found in English, namely the front-rounded vowels. Study participants were students at Brigham Young University, divided into four groups: those 1) without knowledge of German; 2) in their 3rd semester of German without stay abroad; 3) in their 5th semester of German or above without stay abroad; and 4) in their 5th semester or above with at least 12 months in a German-speaking country. The subjects performed two tasks. While listening to German words, they first selected the English word with the vowel that most closely matched the German vowel heard from a list of English words on the computer screen; and secondly, they rated how much alike the German vowel sounded like the English vowel they chose. The results indicate that level of instruction does indeed affect how subjects perceive German vowels. Moreover, perception of the vowels was to some degree affected by the consonant environment. Finally, it was found that all groups rated the similarity of vowels in a similar manner regardless of experience.
Book Synopsis Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism by : Mark Amengual
Download or read book Exploring Cross-linguistic Effects and Phonetic Interactions in the Context of Bilingualism written by Mark Amengual and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-07-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Issue includes fifteen original state-of-the-art research articles from leading scholars that examine cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speech. These experimental studies contribute to the growing number of studies on multilingual phonetics and phonology by introducing novel empirical data collection techniques, sophisticated methodologies, and acoustic analyses, while also presenting findings that provide robust theoretical implications to a variety of subfields, such as L2 acquisition, L3 acquisition, laboratory phonology, acoustic phonetics, psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, blingualism, and language contact. These studies in this book further elucidate the nature of phonetic interactions in the context of bilingualism and multilingualism and outline future directions in multilingual phonetics and phonology research.
Book Synopsis The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology by : Eric Raimy
Download or read book The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology written by Eric Raimy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Segment in Phonetics and Phonology unravels exactly what the segment is and on what levels it exists, approaching the study of the segment with theoretical, empirical, and methodological heterogeneity as its guiding principle. A deliberately eclectic approach to the study of the segment that investigates exactly what the segment is and on what level it exists Includes new research data from a diverse range of fields such as experimental psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and mathematical theories of communication Represents the major theoretical models of phonology, including Articulatory Phonology, Optimality Theory, Laboratory Phonology and Generative Phonology Examines both well-studied languages like English, Chinese, and Japanese and under-studied languages such as Southern Sierra Miwok, Päri, and American Sign Language
Book Synopsis Cue Weighting in the Acquisition of Four American English Vowel Contrasts by Native Speakers of Russian by : Sofia Alexandrovna Ivanova
Download or read book Cue Weighting in the Acquisition of Four American English Vowel Contrasts by Native Speakers of Russian written by Sofia Alexandrovna Ivanova and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation investigates the differential weighting of auditory cues in perception and production of four American English vowel contrasts - /i/ and /ɪ/, /u/ and /ʊ/, /ɛ/ and /æ/, and /ɑ/ and /ʌ/ - by Russian-English bilinguals. Its primary goal is to investigate the role of native (Russian) phonology in the acquisition of new acoustic cues - specifically vowel duration and spectral differences - in a second language (English). Literature suggests it is more difficult to acquire more complex vowel systems in a second language; for second language learners of English, the tense/lax contrast, as well as other contrasts between vowels adjacent in the vowel space and distinguished via both spectral and duration cues, are particularly challenging, and non-native speakers, including native speakers of Russian, differ from natives by attuning more to duration than spectral cues. However, many unanswered questions remain about the role of cue weighting in adults' acquisition of vowel systems with larger inventories in second languages. Despite evidence that acquisition patterns vary not only by first language but also by contrast, few studies that examine this issue study more than one vowel pair (typically /i - ɪ/), and very few study native-Russian learners of English. The present dissertation addresses this understudied language pairing and examines both perception and production of four vowel contrasts, focusing on one specific regional variety of American English. While native English talkers in the present study made a perceptible duration distinction between all four contrasts tested, the Russian-English bilinguals did so only between the high vowel pairs, and their accuracy varied by vowel, contrast, and individual in both perception and production. Perception and production ability correlated on some vowels and contrasts, with perception ability generally exceeding production ability; however, due to the difficulty of comparing perception and production accuracy, it is not possible to conclude that these data offer strong support for the Perception-Production link. The Russian-English bilinguals did not appear to be acquiring a local variety, although it is possible that some talkers with low AOA, high LOR, and extensive cultural experience (including education) in Georgia may have acquired a local rather than generalized standard.
Book Synopsis (In)variability in Accent Perception by : Miranda E. Wilkerson
Download or read book (In)variability in Accent Perception written by Miranda E. Wilkerson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Second Language Speech Learning by : Ratree Wayland
Download or read book Second Language Speech Learning written by Ratree Wayland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including contributions from a team of world-renowned international scholars, this volume is a state-of-the-art survey of second language speech research, showcasing new empirical studies alongside critical reviews of existing influential speech learning models. It presents a revised version of Flege's Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) for the first time, an update on a cornerstone of second language research. Chapters are grouped into five thematic areas: theoretical progress, segmental acquisition, acquiring suprasegmental features, accentedness and acoustic features, and cognitive and psychological variables. Every chapter provides new empirical evidence, offering new insights as well as challenges on aspects of the second language speech acquisition process. Comprehensive in its coverage, this book summarises the state of current research in second language phonology, and aims to shape and inspire future research in the field. It is an essential resource for academic researchers and students of second language acquisition, applied linguistics and phonetics and phonology.
Book Synopsis Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology by : Barbara O. Baptista
Download or read book Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology written by Barbara O. Baptista and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: Perception and Production reports the findings of seventeen interphonology studies on perception/production of sounds by different first language speakers. All the papers describe careful empirical research, and as such will be of great interest to anyone working, or intending to work, in the specific field of second language phonological acquisition. However, given that speech production and perception are highly complex skills, the research findings in this volume will also be relevant to those with a broader interest in language learning or cognition in general.
Book Synopsis English and German. A Comparison of Phonological and Inflectional Properties by : Hülya Atasoyi
Download or read book English and German. A Comparison of Phonological and Inflectional Properties written by Hülya Atasoyi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2.0, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglophone Studies), course: Languages around the world, language: English, abstract: This paper aims at providing a comparison of phonological as well as inflectional properties of English and German. It presents an overview of how major differences between both languages correlate with potential problems in language learning. Furthermore, the problems in language learning of two languages of similar historical origin will be examined, in particular German native-speakers in learning English and vice versa. In addition, it might be significant to see how both languages are differently hard to learn. However, it has to be considered that the degree of difficulty in learning one of these languages differs for every individual person. Each section will concentrate on the question whether major differences between English and German correlate with potential problems in language learning, in particular sections 3.2, 4.3 and 5. At first, some background information on these languages will be given. Afterwards, by presenting the phoneme inventory, particularly focusing on interference, this paper takes a specific look at the pronunciation difficulties of second language learners. Additionally, a short definition of the term ‘suffixation’ will be given in order to introduce the topic ‘inflection’. Selected inflectional suffixes in English and German, with focus on nouns and pronouns, will be investigated separately with examples in order to give an overview about this morphologic process in both languages. What is also presented in this section is an extensive comparison of inflectional suffixes. Furthermore, a survey was conducted in which students and people with less English and/or German knowledge were questioned. The survey is concerned with difficulties in learning English and German.
Book Synopsis Second Language Speech by : Laura Colantoni
Download or read book Second Language Speech written by Laura Colantoni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second language acquisition has rapidly grown as a field over the past decade, as our knowledge of the ways in which children and adults learn and use a second language has become crucial for effective language teaching. In addition to this important 'applied' function, research into second language acquisition has also informed the fields of linguistics and psychology in general, as it has shed light on the differences between native and non-native models of human language and cognition. The focus of this accessible new book is second language speech - that is, how speakers perceive, process, understand and pronounce the sounds of a second language. Each chapter includes review questions, and most chapters include 'tutorial' and 'lab' sections with practical exercises based on the University of Toronto Romance Phonetics Database (available online for free). The book also has a companion website, containing illustrated answers to the exercises, scripts for running acoustic analyses and useful weblinks.
Book Synopsis The Handbook of Psycholinguistics by : Eva M. Fernández
Download or read book The Handbook of Psycholinguistics written by Eva M. Fernández and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related fields. The Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive review of the current state of the field, with an emphasis on research trends most likely to determine the shape of psycholinguistics in the years ahead. The chapters are organized into three parts, corresponding to the major areas of psycholinguists: production, comprehension, and acquisition. The collection of chapters, written by a team of international scholars, incorporates multilingual populations and neurolinguistic dimensions. Each of the three sections also features an overview chapter in which readers are introduced to the different theoretical perspectives guiding research in the area covered in that section. Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics is a valuable addition to the reference shelves of researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in how language works in the human mind and how language is acquired.
Book Synopsis The Roles of Distinctive and Redundant Features in the Production of the Short a and E Vowel Contrast by L1 German Speakers of English by : Joanna Leah Labov
Download or read book The Roles of Distinctive and Redundant Features in the Production of the Short a and E Vowel Contrast by L1 German Speakers of English written by Joanna Leah Labov and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
