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The acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by Japanese learners of English: Evidence that speech production can precede speech perception
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This study examines the relationship between the production and perception of English /r/ and /l/ by native Japanese adults learning English in the United States. For some subjects, production of the contrast was more accurate than their perception of it, replicating and extending a previous finding reported by Goto (1971) in Japan. The difficulty in perception of the liquid contrast varied with its position in the word. Prevocalic /r/ and /l/ in consonant clusters yielded the greatest perceptual errors, while word-final liquids were accurately perceived. This pattern of errors is not predictable on the basis of contrastive phonological analysis, but might be the result of acoustic-phonetic factors. Implications for second language pedagogy are discussed.
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- Sheldon, A., & Strange, W.
- Venue
- Applied Psycholinguistics
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- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1982-09
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 243-261
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- 0142-7164 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1817
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- W2171637847
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- References
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- 4.58
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- Language
- en
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