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Flexible cue use in nonnative phonetic categorization.

Mirjam Broersma1

  • 1Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
|August 7, 2008
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Summary

Nonnative English listeners flexibly adapted to vowel duration cues for /v/ versus /f/ categorization. Native English listeners consistently relied on these cues, unlike Dutch listeners who initially used them but then reduced their reliance.

Area of Science:

  • Phonetics and Phonology
  • Auditory Perception
  • Second Language Acquisition

Background:

  • Cross-linguistic differences in phoneme perception can impact second language (L2) learning.
  • Vowel duration is a known cue for distinguishing voiced and voiceless consonants in some languages.
  • Previous research indicated English listeners use vowel duration for /v/-/f/ categorization, but Dutch listeners do not.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how native English and native Dutch listeners categorize English nonwords differing in final fricatives (/v/ vs. /f/).
  • To examine the role of preceding vowel duration as a cue in this categorization task.
  • To compare the adaptation strategies of native and nonnative listeners to potentially misleading acoustic cues.

Main Methods:

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  • Participants categorized synthesized English nonwords containing final /v/ or /f/.
  • The preceding vowel was phonetically long or short, manipulated to sometimes conflict with other voicing cues.
  • Listener responses and cue usage patterns were analyzed over the course of the experiment.
  • Main Results:

    • Both native English and native Dutch listeners initially used vowel duration to distinguish /v/ and /f/.
    • Native English listeners consistently relied on vowel duration throughout the experiment.
    • Native Dutch listeners, despite initial use, significantly reduced their reliance on vowel duration over time.

    Conclusions:

    • Nonnative listeners (Dutch) demonstrated more flexible adaptation to acoustic cues than native listeners (English).
    • The findings highlight dynamic cue weighting in nonnative speech perception.
    • This suggests nonnative listeners can adjust their perceptual strategies based on input, even when native listeners do not.