Nonnative Perception of Allophonic Cues to Word Boundaries: "Lou Spills" versus "Loose Pills" for Speakers of Polish

Autor/in	Rojczyk, Arkadiusz
Titel	Nonnative Perception of Allophonic Cues to Word Boundaries: "Lou Spills" versus "Loose Pills" for Speakers of Polish
Quelle	In: Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 26 (2019) 1, S.97-105 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rojczyk, Arkadiusz)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1048-9223
DOI	10.1080/10489223.2018.1433672
Schlagwörter	Cues; Polish; Language Acquisition; Accuracy; English; Spanish; Japanese; Second Language Learning; Phonemes; English (Second Language); Language Proficiency; Reaction Time; French; Contrastive Linguistics; Speech Communication; Pronunciation; Second Language Instruction; College Students; Foreign Countries; Acoustics; Phonetics; Auditory Discrimination; Poland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Polnisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; English language; Englisch; Spanisch; Japaner; Japanisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fonem; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Reaktionsvermögen; Französisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Aussprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Collegestudent; Ausland; Akustik; Phonetik; Fonetik; Polen
Abstract	Word segmentation in L2 is not as optimal as in L1 because many, though not all, cues to signal word boundaries appear to be largely language-specific. Native English listeners use short-lag versus long-lag VOTs in segmenting pairs such as "Lou spills" versus "loose pills." Polish contrasts negative versus short-lag VOTs, so speakers of Polish are expected to be largely insensitive to this English word-boundary cue. Forty-three lower-proficiency and 26 higher-proficiency Polish learners of English segmented English words from VOT cues. Both accuracy and RT measures were analyzed. The results showed that the general accuracy was 59%, identical to Spanish (Altenberg 2005) and French speakers (Shoemaker 2014) and lower than that for Japanese speakers (Ito & Strange 2009). There was no difference between segmenting aspirated and unaspirated onsets in accuracy or RTs. Higher proficiency did not lead to more successful segmentation, but higher-proficiency listeners were faster in their decisions. (As Provided).
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