Re-examining the effect of phonological similarity between the native- A nd second-language intonational systems in second-language speech segmentation
- Authors
- Tremblay, Annie; Kim, Sahyang; Shin, Seulgi; Cho, Taehong
- Issue Date
- Mar-2021
- Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
- Keywords
- intonation; tonal cues; second-language speech segmentation; Korean
- Citation
- BILINGUALISM: LANGUAGE AND COGNITION, v.24, no.2, pp.401 - 413
- Journal Title
- BILINGUALISM: LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
- Volume
- 24
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 401
- End Page
- 413
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/11630
- DOI
- 10.1017/S136672892000053X
- ISSN
- 1366-7289
- Abstract
- This study investigates how phonological and phonetic aspects of the native-language (L1) intonation modulate the use of tonal cues in second-language (L2) speech segmentation. Previous research suggested that prosodic learning is more difficult if the L1 and L2 intonations are phonologically similar but phonetically different (French-Korean) than if they are phonologically different (English-French/Korean) (Prosodic-Learning Interference Hypothesis; Tremblay, Broersma, Coughlin & Choi, 2016). This study provides another test of this hypothesis. Korean listeners and French-speaking and English-speaking L2 learners of Korean in Korea completed an eye-tracking experiment investigating the effects of phrase tones in Korean. All groups patterned similarly with the phrase-final tone, but, unlike Korean and French listeners, English listeners showed early benefits from the phrase-initial tone (signaling word-initial boundaries in English). Importantly, French listeners patterned like Korean listeners with both tones. The Prosodic-Learning Interference Hypothesis is refined to suggest that prosodic learning difficulties may not be persistent for immersed L2 learners.
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