Phonetic adaptation in non-native spoken dialogue: Effects of priming and audience design
Phonetic adaptation in non-native spoken dialogue: Effects of priming and audience design
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10.1016/j.jml.2015.01.001
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发表时间：
2015-05-01
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4.3
通讯作者：
Huffman, Marie K.
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作者：
Hwane, Jiwon;Brennan, Susan E.;Huffman, Marie K.
要理解，非母语人士必须调整他们的讲话，以便在他们的第二语言（L2）中产生对比，而这些对比在他们的第一语言（L1）中不存在。在这里，我们研究的机制假设，以促进这种适应口语对话：启动，从属关系和观众设计。在两个实验中，韩国非英语母语的人在一个参考的沟通任务与韩国英语为母语的同盟（实验1）和单语美国英语为母语的同盟（实验1和2）。这项任务要求他们自发地产生包含韩语中不存在的英语片段（/ae/和coda /B/）的标签，当用韩语口音说话时，可能会导致歧义的同音字（例如，pat发音像pet，或者mob发音像mop）。韩国人不仅在听到美国伙伴的类似片段之后立即产生了更多类似英语的语音片段，而且在任务要求伙伴区分两个潜在的模糊项目时也是如此。当韩国人第一次提到可能有歧义的物体时，他们需要更长的时间来启动话语;一旦他们意识到可能有歧义，启动对比标签所花的时间并不比启动合作伙伴启动的标签所花的时间多。研究结果表明，在对话中的启动效应不是强制性的，但可能是有动机的，语音适应是由合作伙伴的语用需求的认识。(C)2015爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
To be understood, non-native speakers must adapt their speech in order to produce contrasts in their second language (L2) that are not present in their first language (L1). Here we examine mechanisms hypothesized to facilitate such adaptation within spoken dialogue: priming, affiliation, and audience design. In two experiments, Korean non-native speakers of English interacted in a referential communication task with a Korean English-speaking confederate (Experiment 1) and a monolingual American English-speaking confederate (Experiments 1 and 2). The task required them to spontaneously produce labels containing segments from English that do not exist in Korean (/ae/ and coda /b/), which, when spoken with a Korean accent, can result in ambiguous homophones (e.g., pat pronounced like pet, or mob pronounced like mop). The Koreans produced more English-like phonetic segments not only immediately after hearing similar segments primed by the American partner, but also when the task required the partner to distinguish two potentially ambiguous items. The first time the Koreans referred to potentially ambiguous objects, utterances took longer to initiate; once they were aware of the potential for ambiguity, initiating contrasting labels took no more time than initiating labels primed by the partner. Findings suggest that priming effects in dialogue are not obligatory but may be motivated, and that phonetic adaptation is shaped by awareness of a partner's pragmatic needs. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.