Cross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakers

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dc.contributor.authorShin, Sarah J.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-05T18:05:35Z
dc.date.available2019-12-05T18:05:35Z
dc.date.issued2001-09
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the ways in which three classes of alveolar stops in Korean (voiceless 'tense' unaspirated /t*/, voiceless 'lax' slightly aspirated /t/, and voiceless heavily aspirated /th/) present different degrees of perceptual difficulty to adult English and Korean listeners. Results show that the /t/-/th/ contrast presented the greatest difficulty in perceptual discriminability for the American listeners (61% error rate) while the /t*/-/t/ and the /t*/-/th/ contrasts presented relatively easy discriminability with 9% and 3% error rates respectively. Painvise t-test results show that English listeners discriminated the /t*/-/th/ contrast significantly better than the /t*/-/t/ contrast, suggesting that a larger difference in VOT between stimulus items increases discriminability. These and other results suggest that English listeners' perception of Korean voicing contrasts is largely determined by phonemic status and to a lesser extent by the magnitude of acoustic difference.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/9557en_US
dc.format.extent12 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2acg2-zxuq
dc.identifier.citationShin, Sarah J.; Cross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakers; Studies in the Linguistic Sciences Volume 31, Number 2 (Fall 2001); https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/9557;en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/16639
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Illinoisen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.subjectperceptual discriminabilityen_US
dc.subjectphonemic statusen_US
dc.subjectacoustic differenceen_US
dc.subjectcross-language speech perceptionen_US
dc.subjectkorean voiceless stopsen_US
dc.titleCross-language speech perception in adults: Discrimination of Korean voiceless stops by English speakersen_US
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