L1-Spanish speakers' acquisition of the English /i/-/I/ contrast II: perception of vowel inherent spectral change.
L1-Spanish learners of English have been reported to distinguish English /i/ and /I? on the basis of duration cues, whereas L1-English listeners primarily use spectral cues. Morrison (2008a) hypothesized that duration-based perception is a secondary developmental stage that emerges from an initial stage of multidimensional-category-goodness assimilation of tokens of English /i/ and /I/ to Spanish /i/, with English vowel tokens perceived to be good examples of Spanish /i/ labeled as English /I/ and poor examples labeled as English /i/.
Morrison
Geoffrey Stewart
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School of Language Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT. geoff.morrison@anu.edu.au
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019303:Multilingualism; D010700:Phonetics; D011336:Probability; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult