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Training Japanese listeners to identify English /r/ and /l/: A first report
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Native speakers of Japanese learning English generally have difficulty differentiating the phonemes /r/ and /l/, even after years of experience with English. Previous research that attempted to train Japanese listeners to distinguish this contrast using synthetic stimuli reported little success, especially when transfer to natural tokens containing /r/ and /l/ was tested. In the present study, a different training procedure that emphasized variability among stimulus tokens was used. Japanese subjects were trained in a minimal pair identification paradigm using multiple natural exemplars contrasting /r/ and /l/ from a variety of phonetic environments as stimuli. A pretest-posttest design containing natural tokens was used to assess the effects of training. Results from six subjects showed that the new procedure was more robust than earlier training techniques. Small but reliable differences in performance were obtained between pretest and posttest scores. The results demonstrate the importance of stimulus variability and task-related factors in training nonnative speakers to perceive novel phonetic contrasts that are not distinctive in their native language.
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- Authors
- Logan, J. S., Lively, S. E., & Pisoni, D. B.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- ORCID
- Pisoni, David B.
- Venue
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publisher
- Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
- Published
- 1991-02-01
- Volume
- 89
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 874-886
- ISSN
- 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
- 1520-8524
- PMC
- PMC3518834
- OpenAlex
- W2037249514
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- FWCI
- 9.69
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01dc000111-38)
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 DC-000111, DC-00111-13, F32DC000111, K08DC000111)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Keywords
- Japanese listeners, stimulus variability, non-native speech perception, English as a second language
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Asian, Attention, Generalization, Stimulus, Humans, Indiana, Japan, Language, Phonetics, Speech Perception
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