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Hisagi, Miwako; Strange, Winifred – Language and Speech, 2011
American listeners' perception of Japanese contrasts of vowel length (e.g., kiro vs. kiiro), consonant length (e.g., kite vs. kitte) and syllable number/length (e.g., kjoo vs. kijoo) was examined. Stimuli consisted of sentence-length utterances produced by a native Japanese talker; five minimal pairs of each contrast type were included. Questions…
Descriptors: Vowels, Phonology, North American English, Japanese
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Escudero, Paola; Wanrooij, Karin – Language and Speech, 2010
Previous research has shown that orthography influences the learning and processing of spoken non-native words. In this paper, we examine the effect of L1 orthography on non-native sound perception. In Experiment 1, 204 Spanish learners of Dutch and a control group of 20 native speakers of Dutch were asked to classify Dutch vowel tokens by…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Auditory Stimuli, Vowels, Monolingualism
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Mani, Nivedita; Coleman, John; Plunkett, Kim – Language and Speech, 2008
Previous research has shown that English infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of vowels in familiar words by as early as 15-months of age. These results suggest that not only are infants sensitive to large mispronunciations of the vowels in words, but also sensitive to smaller mispronunciations, involving changes to only one dimension of the…
Descriptors: Vowels, Deafness, Infants, Phonology