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KMID : 0917519980030010071
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Journal of Speech Sciences
1998 Volume.3 No. 1 p.71 ~ p.82
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The Role of Linguistic Knowledge in the Perception of English Stops after /s/
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Kim Dae-Won
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Abstract
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Five sets of nonsense acoustical stimuli {[spε,stε,skε], [pε,tε,kε], [sbε,sdε,sgε], [bε,dε,gε], [´εbε,´εdε,´εgε]} were presented for indentification of English stop to native speakers of English, Chinese, and Korean. The English speakers perceived stops after /s/ as /p, t, k/; in other contexts as /b, d, g/. In the languages where other distinctions exist, however, the evaluation was different. The results suggest that in English the cue for stops after /s/ was syllable structure constraint: After initial /s/ always /p, t, k/ follow; the cue for the initial stops was aspiration. On the basis of the results, it was concluded that in English we should classify the unaspirated voiceless stops in initial /s/-stop clusters into the phoneme where [p^h,t^h,k^h] are in, and that perception is not only language specific but also context specific.
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KEYWORD
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perception, English stops after ’s’, Korean stops, Chinese stops
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