Listening with an Accent: Speech Perception in a Second Language by Late Bilinguals

Autor/inn/en	Leikin, Mark; Ibrahim, Raphiq; Eviatar, Zohar; Sapir, Shimon
Titel	Listening with an Accent: Speech Perception in a Second Language by Late Bilinguals
Quelle	In: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 38 (2009) 5, S.447-457 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0090-6905
DOI	10.1007/s10936-009-9099-1
Schlagwörter	Semitic Languages; Pronunciation; Second Language Learning; Auditory Perception; Russian; Native Speakers; Bilingualism; Phonology; Language Processing; Psycholinguistics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arabisch; Hebräisch; Aussprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Russisch; Muttersprachler; Bilingualismus; Fonologie; Sprachverarbeitung; Psycholinguistik
Abstract	The goal of the present study was to examine functioning of late bilinguals in their second language. Specifically, we asked how native and non-native Hebrew speaking listeners perceive accented and native-accented Hebrew speech. To achieve this goal we used the gating paradigm to explore the ability of healthy late fluent bilinguals (Russian and Arabic native speakers) to recognize words in L2 (Hebrew) when they were spoken in an accent like their own, a native accent (Hebrew speakers), or another foreign accent (American accent). The data revealed that for Hebrew speakers, there was no effect of accent, whereas for the two bilingual groups (Russian and Arabic native speakers), stimuli with an accent like their own and the native Hebrew accent, required significantly less phonological information than the other foreign accents. The results support the hypothesis that phonological assimilation works in a similar manner in these two different groups. (As Provided).
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