TY - JOUR
T1 - L1-Spanish speakers' acquisition of the English /i/-/I/ contrast II
T2 - Perception of vowel inherent spectral change
AU - Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - 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/.
AB - 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/.
KW - English
KW - L2 vowel perception
KW - Spanish
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70449330826&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0023830909336583
U2 - 10.1177/0023830909336583
DO - 10.1177/0023830909336583
M3 - Article
C2 - 20121041
AN - SCOPUS:70449330826
SN - 0023-8309
VL - 52
SP - 437
EP - 462
JO - Language and Speech
JF - Language and Speech
IS - 4
ER -