早期缺乏敏感性和本地语音类别的逐渐出现:来自代表性不足的语言学习者的模式
Youngon Choi1, Minji Nam1, Naoto Yamane2,3
1Department of Psychology, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Developmental science
|June 16, 2023
概括
韩国婴儿比预期晚发展出母语语音歧视,在12个月左右出现强烈的敏感性. 这挑战了在其他语言学习者中观察到的典型的感知缩小模式.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 语言学的语言学.
- 语音感知 语音感知
背景情况:
- 婴儿通常在第一年的下半年适应母语声学.
- 对感知狭窄的证据仅限于少数语言,亚洲语言的数据很少.
- 由于紧密的音声空间和不断演变的声学线索,韩国语音学提出了独特的挑战.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究学习韩语的婴儿对本地停止辅音类别的敏感性的发育轨迹.
- 为了确定韩国婴儿是否表现出典型的语音感知感知狭窄模式.
主要方法:
- 听觉感知实验在三个年龄组的韩语学习婴儿 (4-6,7-9和10-12个月) 上进行.
- 对韩国本土停止对比的敏感性在不同发育阶段进行了评估.
主要成果:
- 只有10-12个月的婴儿对韩国停止对比的敏感性很弱.
- 在第一年结束时,还没有确立对本地语音的强有力的歧视.
- 这表明,在学习韩语的婴儿中,母语声学的长期出现.
结论:
- 这些发现挑战了典型的感知狭窄模式的普遍性.
- 延迟的语音歧视可能会受到韩国语言的特定语音特性和输入变异的影响.
- 这项研究强调,需要更多多样化的语言样本来理解语音发育.
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