Doctoral Dissertation Research: How Do Learners Overcome Native Language Interference in Second Language Speech?

博士论文研究：学习者如何克服第二语言言语中的母语干扰？

• 批准号: 0236641
• 负责人: Michael Hammond
• 金额: $ 0.37万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-15 至 2004-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0236641&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; How; Do

The difficulties faced by second language learners with respect to novel phoneme contrasts are well-documented and are primarily attributed to the influence of the native language (e.g., the contrast between singleton /t/ and geminate /tt/ in languages like Japanese and Arabic is difficult for native speakers of English because /t/ and /tt/ are not contrastive in English). However, little is yet known about the nature of the evidence that learners can use to improve their ability to perceive such contrasts. Under the direction of Dr. Michael Hammond, and with NSF support, Ms. Rachel Hayes will study the acquisition of second language phoneme contrasts for her doctoral dissertation. The research involves training monolingual English speakers to perceive novel phoneme contrasts in a language that is new to them, and then testing participants on both their ability to perceive the difference between the phonemes and their ability to learn vocabulary in the new language that contains the contrasting phonemes.This research is significant for the fields of speech perception, second language acquisition, and second language pedagogy. A fuller understanding of the types of evidence that listeners can make use of to learn novel second language sound contrasts may ultimately contribute to improved pedagogical techniques for helping adults overcome their initial difficulties in perceiving novel second language phoneme contrasts.

第二语言学习者在新音素对比方面面临的困难有充分的文献记载，主要归因于母语的影响（例如，日语和阿拉伯语等语言中单音/t/和双音/tt/的对比对英语母语者来说很困难，因为/t/和/tt/在英语中没有对比）。然而，对于学习者可以用来提高他们感知这种对比的能力的证据的性质，我们知之甚少。在迈克尔·哈蒙德博士的指导下，在国家科学基金会的支持下，雷切尔·海耶斯女士将在她的博士论文中研究第二语言音素对比的习得。这项研究包括训练只会说英语的人在他们陌生的语言中感知新的音素对比，然后测试参与者感知音素差异的能力，以及他们在包含对比音素的新语言中学习词汇的能力。本研究在言语感知、二语习得和二语教育学等领域具有重要意义。更全面地了解听者可以用来学习新的第二语言语音对比的证据类型，可能最终有助于改进教学技术，帮助成年人克服他们在感知新的第二语言音素对比方面的最初困难。