Effects of Talkers, Listeners, and Vowel Types in the Perception of English Vowels
- 한국영어학학회
- 영어학연구
- 영어학연구 제19권 2호
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2013.0831 - 56 (26 pages)
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This study explored speech intelligibility of native English listeners and Korean listeners in the perception of English vowels, taking into consideration talker-, listener-, and vowel type-related factors. To that end, 10 English listeners and 41 Korean listeners identified 11 English vowels produced by 2 native English talkers and 21 Korean talkers in a forced-choice identification task. The results showed that the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for talkers (the ISIB-T) was manifested in the vowels [i, eI, u] while the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for non-native listeners (the ISIB-L) was witnessed in the vowels [u, ε, Ʊ, A]. Thus, the results indicated that the ISIB-T and the ISIB-L showed different patterns depending on talkers, listeners, and vowel types, rather than demonstrating uniform patterns in terms of the presence and absence of matched vs. non-matched vowels between English and Korean. Implications for the findings were further discussed in terms of L1 vowel categories, acoustic-phonetic dimensions of the vowels, and shared properties of Korean-English interlanguage.
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Literature Review
3. Method
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusion and Implications
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