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http://dx.doi.org/10.13064/KSSS.2022.14.3.001

The acoustic cue-weighting and the L2 production-perception link: A case of English-speaking adults' learning of Korean stops  

Kong, Eun Jong (Department of English, Korea Aerospace University)
Kang, Soyoung (School of Linguistics and Language Studies, Carleton University)
Seo, Misun (Department of English Language and Literature, Hannam University)
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences / v.14, no.3, 2022 , pp. 1-9 More about this Journal
Abstract
The current study examined English-speaking adult learners' production and perception of L2 Korean stops (/t/ or /t'/ or /th/) to investigate whether the two modalities are linked in utilizing voice onset time (VOT) and fundamental frequency (F0) for the L2 sound distinction and how the learners' L2 proficiency mediates the relationship. Twenty-two English-speaking learners of Korean living in Seoul participated in the word-reading task of producing stop-initial words and the identification task of labelling CV stimuli synthesized to vary VOT and F0. Using logistic mixed-effects regression models, we quantified group- and individual-level weights of the VOT and F0 cues in differentiating the tense-lax, lax-aspirated, and tense-aspirated stops in Korean. The results showed that the learners as a group relied on VOT more than F0 both in production and perception (except the tense-lax pair), reflecting the dominant role of VOT in their L1 stop distinction. Individual-level analyses further revealed that the learners' L2 proficiency was related to their use of F0 in L2 production and their use of VOT in L2 perception. With this effect of L2 proficiency controlled in the partial correlation tests, we found a significant correlation between production and perception in using VOT and F0 for the lax-aspirated stop contrast. However, the same correlation was absent for the other stop pairs. We discuss a contrast-specific role of acoustic cues to address the non-uniform patterns of the production-perception link in the L2 sound learning context.
Keywords
production-perception link; acoustic cue-weighting; L2 proficiency; voice onset time (VOT); fundamental frequency; stop laryngeal contrast; second language learning;
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