Individual differences in the acquisition of second language phonology
Individual differences in the acquisition of second language phonology
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandl.2008.01.005
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发表时间：
2009-05-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Zatorre, Robert J.
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作者：
Golestani, Narly;Zatorre, Robert J.
知觉训练被用来表征非母语语音学习的个体差异。59名成年英语使用者接受了区分印地语卷舌音对比和音调对比的训练。训练导致整体组的能力，以确定和区分语音和音调的对比，但有相当大的个人差异的表现。类别边界效应在训练后的歧视印地语，但不是音调的对比表明不同的学习机制，这两种刺激类型。具体来说，我们的研究结果表明，成功的语音学习涉及到新的语音的长期记忆类别表征的形成。(C)2008年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Perceptual training was employed to characterize individual differences in non-native speech sound learning. Fifty-nine adult English speakers were trained to distinguish the Hindi dental-retroflex contrast, as well as a tonal pitch contrast. Training resulted in overall group improvement in the ability to identify and to discriminate the phonetic and the tonal contrasts, but there were considerable individual differences in performance. A category boundary effect during the post-training discrimination of the Hindi but not of the tonal contrast suggests different learning mechanisms for these two stimulus types. Specifically, our results suggest that successful learning of the speech sounds involves the formation of a long-term memory category representation for the new speech sound. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.