Second Language Speech Learning
My research focuses on perceptual approaches to second language speech learning, or pronunciation training. Two main approaches to perceptual training have been investigated in the literature: (1) perceptual fading in which learners are presented stimuli from opposite ends of a synthetic continuum i...
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| description | My research focuses on perceptual approaches to second language speech learning, or pronunciation training. Two main approaches to perceptual training have been investigated in the literature: (1) perceptual fading in which learners are presented stimuli from opposite ends of a synthetic continuum in which the differences between the members of the non-native phonemic contrast have been exaggerated (Jamieson and Morosan, 1986), and (2) High-Variability Pronunciation Training (HVPT) in which learners are presented minimal pairs containing the non-native phonemic contrasts in forced-choice identification format (Logan et al., 1991). While these techniques, in particular HVPT, have been demonstrated to be effective in lab-based studies, they typically involve just one simple task, e.g. forced-choice identification, which the learner is required to repeat ad nauseum. To ensure that learners persist with training when a wider variety of phonemic contrasts are to be trained, I believe that a greater variety of tasks is required. In this poster, I present an experiment which compared two versions of HVPT, one employing an identification task and one employing a discrimination task. Future research will explore a wider variety of tasks in combination with the use of synthetic continua. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5d49c899-3ca1-4edb-b46d-2097896296562022-03-26T17:33:28ZSecond Language Speech LearningConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:5d49c899-3ca1-4edb-b46d-209789629656http://symplectic.bodleian.ox.ac.uk:8080/fedora/objects/src:67ee8d63-0404-46da-b283-0d47e67151b72011Handley, ZMy research focuses on perceptual approaches to second language speech learning, or pronunciation training. Two main approaches to perceptual training have been investigated in the literature: (1) perceptual fading in which learners are presented stimuli from opposite ends of a synthetic continuum in which the differences between the members of the non-native phonemic contrast have been exaggerated (Jamieson and Morosan, 1986), and (2) High-Variability Pronunciation Training (HVPT) in which learners are presented minimal pairs containing the non-native phonemic contrasts in forced-choice identification format (Logan et al., 1991). While these techniques, in particular HVPT, have been demonstrated to be effective in lab-based studies, they typically involve just one simple task, e.g. forced-choice identification, which the learner is required to repeat ad nauseum. To ensure that learners persist with training when a wider variety of phonemic contrasts are to be trained, I believe that a greater variety of tasks is required. In this poster, I present an experiment which compared two versions of HVPT, one employing an identification task and one employing a discrimination task. Future research will explore a wider variety of tasks in combination with the use of synthetic continua. |
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