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KMID : 1022420170090030033
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2017 Volume.9 No. 3 p.33 ~ p.40
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Perception and production of Korean and English stops by bilinguals with extensive experience residing in the U.S.: Individual patterns
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Oh Eun-Jin
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Abstract
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This study aimed to examine how Korean-English bilinguals make use of VOT and F0 cues in perception and production of Korean (lenis vs. aspirated) and English (voiced vs. voiceless) stops. It was explored whether bilinguals with extensive
experience living in the U.S. exhibit native-like or interactive patterns in the cue use for both languages. Participants
produced monosyllabic word-initial stops within a carrier sentence in each language, and performed forced-choice
identification tasks with synthesized stimuli varying in 7 VOT steps and 7 F0 steps with base tokens of /t?an/ for Korean
and /tæn/ for English. Listeners were required to select either /tan/ or /t?an/ for Korean and either /dæn/ or /tæn/ for English. The results from binary logistic regression analyses for each listener indicated that all bilinguals placed greater weight on F0 than VOT when distinguishing between the Korean lenis and aspirated stops, and greater weight on VOT than F0 in distinguishing between the English voiced and voiceless stops. In terms of production, all participants showed remarkably overlapping ranges in the VOT dimension and separating ranges in the F0 dimension for the stop contrast of Korean, while forming overlapping ranges in the F0 dimension and separating ranges in the VOT dimension for the stop contrast of English. These results indicate that the bilinguals with extensive exposure to L2 manage the stop systems of the two languages independently, both in perception and production, employing the opposite cue use for stops in the two languages. It was also found that the absolute beta-coefficient values of the perceptual cues for Korean stops were generally smaller than those for English and those reported in a previous study as for later bilinguals, which may have resulted from Korean not being their dominant language.
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KEYWORD
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stop , VOT , F0 , Korean , English , bilingual , perception , production
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