The Impact of Free Allophonic Variation on the Perception of Second Language Phonological Categories

When learning the phonological categories of a second language (L2), learners have to deal with phonetic variation. For instance, allophonic variant forms have to be recognized as the same phoneme. A minimal pair identification task was used to assess how late Spanish learners of German perceive the...

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Main Authors: Eva Reinisch, Katharina I. Juhl, Miquel Llompart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Communication
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00047/full