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KMID : 0917519990060010007
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Journal of Speech Sciences
1999 Volume.6 No. 1 p.7 ~ p.24
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Production and Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Korean Learners of English
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Kang Hyeon-Seok
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Abstract
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Eleven Korean learners of English took part in a experiment where the production and perception of English /r/ and /1/ in four different word positions was investigated. Overall the subjects made more errors on /1/ in both production and identification test. The frequency of the subjects´ errors was also sensitive to word postitions in which the two English liquids occur. Especially the subjects made noticeably fewer errors in intervocalic medial postition. It is suggested that the Korean subjects´ acquisitional pattern in this particular case of foreign phone learning can be explained more by language particular ´interference´ effects rather than ´universal´ acoustic arguments such as those given in Dissosway et al. (1982) and Sheldon and Strange (1982). The results of the experiment also support the minority position among second language educators that in some cases of non-native phone acquistition, learners´ production abilities can be developed earlier than their perceptual abilities.
Keywords: English liquids, phonological interference, word-positions
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