Two ways to listen: do L2-dominant bilinguals perceive stop voicing according to language mode?
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How listeners categorize two phones predicts the success with which they will discriminate the given phonetic distinction. In the case of bilinguals, such perceptual patterns could reveal whether the listener's two phonological systems are integrated or separate. This is of particular interest when a given contrast is realized differently in each language, as is the case with Greek and English stop-voicing distinctions. We had Greek-English early sequential bilinguals and Greek and English monolinguals (baselines) categorize, rate, and discriminate stop-voicing contrasts in each language. All communication with each group of bilinguals occurred solely in one language mode, Greek or English. The monolingual groups showed the expected native-language constraints, each perceiving their native contrast more accurately than the opposing nonnative contrast. Bilinguals' category-goodness ratings for the same physical stimuli differed, consistent with their language mode, yet their discrimination performance was unaffected by language mode and biased toward their dominant language (English). We conclude that bilinguals integrate both languages in a common phonetic space that is swayed by their long-term dominant language environment for discrimination, but that they selectively attend to language-specific phonetic information for phonologically motivated judgments (category-goodness ratings).
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A bilingual is a single (dominant-language) listener with respect to discrimination, but behaves more like a monolingual of the activated language with respect to discrimination judgments.
““The results suggest that a bilingual is a single (dominant-language) listener with respect to discrimination, but behaves more like a monolingual of the activated language with respect to discrimination judgments.””
From Plasticity, Variability and Age in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism (2018) · cites this paper as Antoniou et al., 2012
The General Discussion supports the first clause: bilinguals behaved as single dominant-language listeners in discrimination. But it says they behaved more like monolinguals of the activated language in categorization judgments, not discrimination judgments. Experiment 1 likewise reports no language-mode effect on discrimination. (LLM, conf=0.92)
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“Perception experiments with a larger sample of Greek– English bilinguals (Antoniou et al., 2012, p. 592) reveal a still more complex pattern of dominance relationships, one that depends on whether the task is categorization or discrimination of voicing: “The results suggest that a bilingual is a…”
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- Authors
- Antoniou, M., Tyler, M. D., & Best, C. T.
- Affiliations
- Western Sydney University (AU)
- Haskins Laboratories (US)
- Corresponding author
- Antoniou, Mark
- Venue
- Journal of Phonetics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-07
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 582-594
- ISSN
- 0095-4470 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3403831
- OpenAlex
- W2073994583
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- en
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- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (F32DC000403, R01DC000403)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Keywords
- stop voicing, language mode, phonetic discrimination, phonetic classification, phonological integration, phonetic space
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