TY - JOUR
T1 - L1-Spanish speakers' acquisition of the english contrast
T2 - Duration-based perception is not the initial developmental stage
AU - Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart
PY - 2008/12
Y1 - 2008/12
N2 - L1-Spanish L2-English listeners' perception of a Canadian-English continuum was investigated. Results were largely consistent with the developmental stages for L1-Spanish listeners' acquisition of English /i/ and /I/ hypothesized by Escudero (2000): Stage 0, inability to distinguish. Stage 1, duration based. Stage 2, duration and spectral based. Stage 3, L1-English-like primarily spectral based. However, on the basis of the results an additional stage was hypothesized: Stage 1/2, multidimensional-category-goodness-difference assimilation to Spanish /i/, with English vowel tokens perceived as good examples of Spanish /i/ labeled as English /I/ and poor examples labeled as English /i/. It is hypothesized that L1-Spanish listeners' preference for duration cues is not an initial strategy for distinguishing English /i/ and /I/. Rather, it is a secondary developmental stage which emerges from an earlier stage when both spectral and duration cues are used.
AB - L1-Spanish L2-English listeners' perception of a Canadian-English continuum was investigated. Results were largely consistent with the developmental stages for L1-Spanish listeners' acquisition of English /i/ and /I/ hypothesized by Escudero (2000): Stage 0, inability to distinguish. Stage 1, duration based. Stage 2, duration and spectral based. Stage 3, L1-English-like primarily spectral based. However, on the basis of the results an additional stage was hypothesized: Stage 1/2, multidimensional-category-goodness-difference assimilation to Spanish /i/, with English vowel tokens perceived as good examples of Spanish /i/ labeled as English /I/ and poor examples labeled as English /i/. It is hypothesized that L1-Spanish listeners' preference for duration cues is not an initial strategy for distinguishing English /i/ and /I/. Rather, it is a secondary developmental stage which emerges from an earlier stage when both spectral and duration cues are used.
KW - English
KW - L2 vowel perception
KW - Spanish
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67949115510&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0023830908099067
U2 - 10.1177/0023830908099067
DO - 10.1177/0023830908099067
M3 - Article
C2 - 19348153
AN - SCOPUS:67949115510
SN - 0023-8309
VL - 51
SP - 285
EP - 315
JO - Language and Speech
JF - Language and Speech
IS - 4
ER -