An effect of linguistic experience: The discrimination of [r] and [l] by native speakers of Japanese and English
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The categorical perception phenomenon is language-specific; Japanese adults failed to show a peak in discrimination at the phonetic boundary of an American English /ra-la/ series.
“The phenomenon was language-specific; Japanese adults, for example, failed to show a peak in discrimination at the phonetic boundary of an American English/ra-la/series (as in “rake” vs. “lake”) (11).”
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When acquiring a second language, certain phonetic distinctions are notoriously difficult to master both in speech perception and production, as shown by the difficulty of the /r-l/ distinction for native speakers of Japanese even after training.
“When acquiring a second language, certain phonetic distinctions are notoriously difficult to master both in speech perception and production, as shown, for example, by the difficulty of the /r-l/ distinction for native speakers of Japanese, even after training (11, 78, 111, 112).”
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- Authors
- Miyawaki, K., Jenkins, J. J., Strange, W., Liberman, A. M., Verbrugge, R., & Fujimura, O.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Haskins Laboratories (US)
- ORCID
- Fujimura, Osamu
- Venue
- Perception & Psychophysics
- Published
- 1975-09
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 331-340
- ISSN
- 0031-5117 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5962
- OpenAlex
- W2062956221
- Cited by
- 689
- References
- 13
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- FWCI
- 10.25
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Perception & Psychophysics (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (19-24)
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- third formant, formant transitions, speech perception, language experience, Japanese speakers, English speakers, phonemic contrasts, categorical perception, synthetic speech stimuli
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