کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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931933 | 923051 | 2012 | 15 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
In British English, the phrase Canada aided can sound like Canada raided if the speaker links the two vowels at the word boundary with an intrusive /r/. There are subtle phonetic differences between an onset /r/ and an intrusive /r/, however. With cross-modal priming and eye-tracking, we examine how native British English listeners and non-native (Dutch) listeners deal with the lexical ambiguity arising from this language-specific connected speech process. Together the results indicate that the presence of /r/ initially activates competing words for both listener groups; however, the native listeners rapidly exploit the phonetic cues and achieve correct lexical selection. In contrast, The Dutch-native advanced L2 listeners to English failed to recover from the /r/-induced competition, and failed to match native performance in either task. The /r/-intrusion process, which adds a phoneme to speech input, thus causes greater difficulty for L2 listeners than connected-speech processes which alter or delete phonemes.
► In connected speech, speakers can delete and add segments in the speech stream.
► One segment-addition case is British English r-insertion (as in “law[r]and order”).
► We show that native listeners compensate for this intrusion, but L2 learners cannot.
► Phonetic naturalness influences L2 attainment for connected-speech processes.
Journal: Journal of Memory and Language - Volume 66, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 530–544