Training Japanese listeners to identify English |r| and |l|:: Long-term retention of learning in perception and production
Training Japanese listeners to identify English |r| and |l|:: Long-term retention of learning in perception and production
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10.3758/bf03206911
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1999-07-01
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Tohkura, Y
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Bradlow, AR;Akahane-Yamada, R;Tohkura, Y
我们实验室以前的工作表明，单语日本成年人谁得到了密集的高变异性知觉训练提高了英语/r/-/l/最小对的知觉和生产。在这项研究中，我们扩展了这些发现，通过调查的长期保留的学习在这两个困难的非母语的对比的感知和生产。结果表明，3个月后完成的知觉训练程序，日本学员保持其性能的提高水平上的知觉识别任务。此外，美国原住民英语听众对日本学员的前测、后测和3个月后续语音制作的感知评估表明，学员在英语的总体质量、可识别性和整体可理解性方面保持了长期的改善/r/-/l/单词制作。总之，这些结果为高变异性实验室语音训练程序的有效性提供了进一步的支持，并对这种程序在广泛的“特殊人群”中的应用提出了乐观的前景。"
Previous work from our laboratories has shown that monolingual Japanese adults who were given intensive high-variability perceptual training improved in both perception and production of English /r/-/l/ minimal pairs. In this study, we extended those findings by investigating the long-term retention of learning in both perception and production of this difficult non-native contrast. Results showed that 3 months after completion of the perceptual training procedure, the Japanese trainees maintained their improved levels of performance on the perceptual identification task. Furthermore, perceptual evaluations by native American English listeners of the Japanese trainees' pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up speech productions showed that the trainees retained their long-term improvements in the general quality, identifiability, and overall intelligibility of their English /r/-/l/ word productions. Taken together, the results provide further support for the efficacy of high-variability laboratory speech sound training procedures, and suggest an optimistic outlook for the application of such procedures for a wide range of "special populations."