Prosodic Position in Cross Language Perception and Production

大多数人都有以非常高的速度发出语音的非凡能力，也能够识别别人发出的语音，并将它们与语言的复杂系统联系起来。更令人惊讶的是，世界上大多数说话者可以用两种不同的语言做到这一点；他们可以灵活地使用非常不同的语言系统进行交谈和倾听。为了了解这是如何实现的，肯尼斯·德容博士和一个研究团队将研究韩国人是如何产生和感知英语辅音的，以及他们的发展技能与其他与语言结构有关的技能之间是如何关联的。这些任务要求他们识别和产生声音，并能够将英语话语分解成音节，并确定重音在哪里。他们完成这些任务的能力将告诉我们，各种感知、运动和分类技能之间的联系是多么紧密。研究小组还将通过让他们将英语发音与韩语标签进行分类，来确定他们的英语感知技能如何依赖于他们的韩语感知技能。综上所述，这些研究将展示在第二语言学习中，说、听和概括的各种技能是如何结合在一起的。该研究项目将在第二语言习得和语音学领域做出重大贡献，通过对英语辅音系统的良好抽样来检验一些不同的感知和产生能力。以前的大多数研究都考察了少数不同的群体，很少考察同一个体的生产和感知技能。这个项目将特别确定一组声音在整个更大的系统中的系统效果。它还将系统地确定韵律组织对生产和感知技能的影响。第二语言习得者，因为他们正处于快速变化的过程中，给了我们一扇窗，让我们了解说话和感知技能的结构，以及它们之间的关系。

Most people have the remarkable ability to produce speech sounds at a very high rate of speed, and also to be able to identify the speech sound others are making and to relate them to the complex system of a language. Even more astounding, the majority of speakers in the world can do this in two different languages; they can flexibly talk and listen using often very different linguistic systems. To understand how this is accomplished, Dr. Kenneth de Jong and a research team will examine how Koreans produce and perceive consonants in English and how their developing skills relate to other skills having to do with language structure. These tasks require them to identify and produce the sounds, and to be able to break up English utterances into syllables and to determine where stress lies. Their abilities in doing these tasks will tell us how tightly connected the various perception, motor, and classification skills are related to each other. The research group will also determine how their English perception skills rely on their Korean perception skills by having them classify the English sounds with Korean labels. Put together, these studies will show how the various skills of speaking, listening, and generalizing fit together in the learning of a second language. The research project will make a significant contribution to the fields of second language acquisition and of phonetics by examining a number of different perception and production abilities in a good sampling of the English consonant system. Most previous studies examine small numbers of different segments and rarely examine production and perception skills in the same individuals. This project will particularly determine how systematic effects found for one set of sounds are across the larger system. It will also systematically determine the effect of prosodic organization on both production and perception skills. The second language acquirers, since they are in the process of rapid change, give a window into the structure of speaking and perception skills, and how they relate to each other.