Perception of catalan vowels and diphthongs by native english speakers
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Juli Cebrian [1]
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[1] Universitat Atònoma de Barcelona
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- Localización: Tendencias actuales en fonética experimental: cruce de disciplinas en el centenario del "Manual de Pronunciación Española" (Tomás Navarro Tomás) : [CIFE 2017 : VII Congreso Internacional de Fonética Experimental, Madrid 22-24/11/17] / coord. por Victoria Marrero Aguiar, Eva Estebas Vilaplana; Silvia Carmen Barreiro Bilbao (col.), Juan María Garrido Almiñana (col.), María Beatriz Pérez Cabello de Alba (col.), Nuria Polo Cano (col.), 2017, ISBN 978-84-697-7855-5, págs. 200-202
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Models of second language speech (L2) base their predictions about perception and production of L2 sounds on the degree of similarity between native and non-native sounds. This study presents the results of a cross-linguistic perception experiment involving English and Catalan vowels. A group of English-speaking listeners performed a rated dissimilarity task in which they had to indicate the perceived similarity between two vowel sounds. Stimuli consisted of English-English and Catalan-English vowel pairs. The results showed that some Catalan-English pairs obtained dissimilarity ratings that were comparable to same-category English-English pairs, while other pairs had ratings that fell between same-category and different category English-English pairs. The results will be discussed in terms of their consequences for L2 categorization and in light of previous findings involving Catalan listeners.
