Acoustic Similarity Predicts Vowel Phoneme Detection in an Unfamiliar Regional Accent: Evidence from Monolinguals, Bilinguals and Second-Language Learners

Acoustic Similarity Predicts Vowel Phoneme Detection in an Unfamiliar Regional Accent: Evidence from Monolinguals, Bilinguals and Second-Language Learners

When encountering an unfamiliar accent, a hypothesized perceptual challenge is associating its phonetic realizations with the intended phonemic categories. Greater accumulated exposure to the language might afford richer representations of phonetic variants, thereby increasing the chance of detectin...

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Main Authors: Daniel Williams, Turgut Ağabeyoğlu, Adamantios Gafos, Paola Escudero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-02-01
Series:Languages
Subjects:
vowel acoustics
vowel perception
phonemes
second language
bilingual
monolingual
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/9/2/62

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