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KMID : 1022420120040030025
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2012 Volume.4 No. 3 p.25 ~ p.30
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The Effect of Visual Cues in the Identification of the English Consonants /b/ and /v/ by Native Korean Speakers
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Kim Yoon-Hyun
Koh Sung-Ryong
Valerie Hazan
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Abstract
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This study investigated whether native Korean listeners could use visual cues for the identification of the English consonants /b/ and /v/. Both auditory and audiovisual tokens of word minimal pairs in which the target phonemes were located in word-initial or word-medial position were used. Participants were instructed to decide which consonant they heard in 2 x 2conditions: cue (audio-only, audiovisual) and location (word-initial, word-medial). Mean identification scores were significantly higher for audiovisual than audio-only condition and for word-initial than word-medial condition. Also, according to signal detection theory, sensitivity, d´, and response bias, c were calculated based on both hit rates and false alarm rates. The measures showed that the higher identification rate in the audiovisual condition was related with an increase in sensitivity. There were no significant differences in response bias measures across conditions. This result suggests that native Korean speakers can use visual cues while identifying confusing non-native phonemic contrasts. Visual cues can enhance non-native speech perception.
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KEYWORD
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non-native speech perception, visual cue, bilabial, labio-dental
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