Abstract. Foreign accent has been assumed to be closely related to the degree of articulatory, acoustic and perceptual similarity between L1 and L2 sounds. This study examined cross-language acoustic and perceptual similarities between Korean and English sibilant fricatives: Korean [—tense] /s/ and [+tense] /s*/ vs. English alveolar /s/ and palato-alveolar /∫/. To determine acoustic similarity, two parameters were measured: duration and spectral peak frequency. A Same-Different (AX) discrimination task investigated listeners' perceived similarity judgments between pairs of sibilants. In most cases, the acoustic characterizations led to correct predictions about differences in listeners' perceptions. However, results showed several disparities between acoustic similarity and perceived similarity. These cases necessarily involve acoustic dimensions other than the two measured here; probable candidates are voice quality on a following vowel, and lip rounding, with its spectral lowering effects. Cases of mismatch between acoustic and perceptual characterizations are fruitful areas for examining additional acoustic characteristics that may be responsible for listeners' ability to distinguish sounds. Acoustic and perceptual characterizations in tandem provide the best method of establishing areas of difference between the sounds of different languages, and in turn of establishing ways to teach L2 sounds to learners.
2016. The articulatory and acoustic characteristics of Polish sibilants and their consequences for diachronic change. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 46:3 ► pp. 311 ff.
CHANG, CHARLES B.
2016. Bilingual perceptual benefits of experience with a heritage language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19:4 ► pp. 791 ff.
Cho, Sylvia, Allard Jongman, Yue Wang & Joan A. Sereno
2020. Multi-modal cross-linguistic perception of fricatives in clear speech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147:4 ► pp. 2609 ff.
2016. Perceptual Identification and Perception of Sibilants of English Language by Turkish English Majors. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 232 ► pp. 750 ff.
Jannedy, Stefanie & Melanie Weirich
2017. Spectral moments vs discrete cosine transformation coefficients: Evaluation of acoustic measures distinguishing two merging German fricatives. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142:1 ► pp. 395 ff.
Li, Junkai & Delin Deng
2022. Neutralisation et fortition en interphonologie laryngale du français. Langue française N° 215:3 ► pp. 103 ff.
Lim, Jina & Mira Oh
2018. Resyllabification in English: A phonetic study of word-medial /s/. Phonetics and Speech Sciences 10:4 ► pp. 101 ff.
Mandel, Michael I., Vikas Grover, Mengxuan Zhao, Jiyoung Choi & Valerie L. Shafer
2019. The Bubble Noise Technique for Speech Perception Research. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 4:6 ► pp. 1653 ff.
2014. Long-Term Average Spectra of Adult Iranian Speakers' Voice. Journal of Voice 28:3 ► pp. 305 ff.
Park, Jin & Inkie Chung
2024. Korean listeners’ identification and discrimination of lengthened /s/ as prolongations. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 38:2 ► pp. 138 ff.
Silbert, Noah H., Benjamin K. Smith, Scott R. Jackson, Susan G. Campbell, Meredith M. Hughes & Medha Tare
2015. Non-native phonemic discrimination, phonological short term memory, and word learning. Journal of Phonetics 50 ► pp. 99 ff.
Weirich, Melanie, Stefanie Jannedy & Gediminas Schüppenhauer
2020. The Social Meaning of Contextualized Sibilant Alternations in Berlin German. Frontiers in Psychology 11
Yunju Suh
2010. English Sibilants before /i/ in Korean Loanwords: A Contrast-specific Role of Phonetic Similarity. Korean Journal of Linguistics 35:4 ► pp. 941 ff.
김종실
2012. Adaptation of Laryngeal Contrast in English Loanwords by Korean Speakers: Mapping from Auditory Forms to Surface Forms. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 12:2 ► pp. 327 ff.
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