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The assimilation of L2 Australian English vowels to L1 Japanese vowel categories : vocabulary size matters
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Do English speakers assimilate Mandarin tones to English prosodic categories?
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Early vs. late Serbian-English bilinguals' responses to two Australian English vowel contrasts
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Adults learning a second language (L2) (“late learners”) have difficulty achieving a native speaker’s level of accuracy in both perception and production of L2 phonetic segments. This difficulty often results in deviant production of L2 segments that is perceived as accented speech by native speakers of that language. It is generally agreed that this failure in non native segmental production and perception is caused by previous linguistic experience with the first (L1) language. Late learners are expected to show stronger L1 effects than learners who learnt their L2 in early childhood (“early learners”). However, not all L2 phonetic segments are equally difficult for late learners. The learnability of L2 phonetic segments is thought to be perceptual in nature and depends on the perceived phonetic distance between them and the acoustically, phonetically and/or articulatorily most similar segment(s) in the learner’s L1 phonetic inventory. It is generally assumed that specific L2 segments will be perceptually related or assimilated to the most similar L1 segment(s) even if there is a detectable acoustic difference between them. The studies reported in this thesis examined Serbian-English bilinguals’ perception and production difficulties with two Australian English vowel contrasts that are not contrastive in Serbian: /e/ - /æ/ and /i:/ - //. We compared participants who began learning English before 5 years (“early”) versus those who began after 15 years (“late”). In Study 1and Study 2 early learners discriminated and produced both contrasts equally well, whereas late learners had greater difficulties perceiving and producing /e/ - /æ/. In Study 3 a priming paradigm was applied to discrimination and perceptual assimilation tasks in which the prime and target contain phonologically identical, phonetically similar or phonologically and phonetically unrelated vowels under two interstimulus intervals (ISI) that tap phonological versus phonetic levels of processing, according to prior research. Early versus late group differences suggest that discrimination and production accuracy reflect how listeners assimilate Australian English vowels to native Serbian vowels. “Early” and “late” learners related L2 vowels to L1 differently, which reflects differences in establishment of the L1 phonetic system at the time of L2 onset.
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Australia; Doctor of Philosophy (PhD); English language; phonetics; second language acquisition; Serbian language; Serbian speakers; study and teaching; vowels
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URL: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/36713
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Lexical mapping in processability theory : a case study in Japanese
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Dental-to-velar perceptual assimilation : a cross-linguistic study of the perception of dental stop +/l/ clusters
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Lexical and grammatical development in Japanese-English bilingual first language acquisition
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Synthesized speech intelligibility and persuasion : speech rate and non-native listeners
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One child, two languages : bilingual first language acquisition in Japanese and English
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The expression of temporal relations in Thai children's narratives
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Other words, other worlds : bilingual identities and literacy
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Intersections between language retention and identities in young bilingual children
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Perception of non-native tonal contrasts : effects of native phonological and phonetic influences
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So, Connie K.. - : New Zealand, Australian Speech Science & Technology Association Inc., 2006
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The influence of L1 prosodic background on the learning of Mandarin tones : patterns of tonal confusion by Cantonese and Japanese naïve listeners
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The development of lexical tone production in Thai children, 18 months to 6 years : relationships with language milestones?
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New measures to chart toddlers' speech perception and language development : a test of the lexical restructuring hypothesis
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A multiple goal analysis of female Japanese university students' general academic motivation and motivation towards EFL.
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