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KMID : 1022420100020010059
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2010 Volume.2 No. 1 p.59 ~ p.68
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The Effects of Korean Coda-neutralization Process on Word Recognition in English
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Kim Seon-Mee
Nam Ki-Chun
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Abstract
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This study addresses the issue of whether Korean(L1)-English(L2) non-proficient bilinguals are affected by the native coda-neutralization process when recognizing words in English continuous speech. Korean phonological rules require that if liaison occurs between "words", then coda-neutralization process must come before the liaison process, which results in liaison-consonants being coda-neutralized ones such as /b/, /d/, or /g/, rather than non-neutralized ones like /p/, /t/, /k/, /?/, /?/, or /s/. Consequently, if Korean listeners apply their native coda-neutralization rules to English speech input, word detection will be easier when coda-neutralized consonants precede target words than when non-neutralized ones do. Word-spotting and word-monitoring tasks were used in Experiment 1 and 2, respectively. In both experiments, listeners detected words faster and more accurately when vowel-initial target words were preceded by coda-neutralized consonants than when preceded by coda non-neutralized ones. The results show that Korean listeners exploit their native phonological process when processing English, irrespective of whether the native process is appropriate or not.
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KEYWORD
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Korean-English non-proficient bilinguals, coda-neutralization, liaison, phonological process, continuous speech
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