Bilingual phonological contrast perception: The influence of Quanzhou Southern Min on Mandarin non-sibilant fricative discrimination-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Bilingual phonological contrast perception: The influence of Quanzhou Southern Min on Mandarin non-sibilant fricative discrimination

Published:2023-07-01 Issue:7 Volume:3 Page:
ISSN:2691-1191
Container-title:JASA Express Letters
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Author:

Weng Caihong¹,Chitoran Ioana¹,Martin Alexander²

Affiliation:

1. UFR Linguistique, Université Paris Cité, CLILLAC-ARP 1 , Paris, France

2. Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen 2 , Groningen, The Netherlands caihong.weng@etu.u-paris.fr ioana.chitoran@u-paris.fr alexander.martin@rug.nl

Abstract

This study explores the discrimination of Mandarin non-sibilant fricatives by bilingual speakers (N = 40) of Quanzhou Southern Min (L1) and Mandarin (L2) in different phonological contexts, including rounded vowels and the glide [w]. The results of the ABX discrimination task indicate significant contextual effects of the following sound, in line with predictions based on the Perceptual Assimilation model (PAM) [Best (1995). J. Phon. 20(3), 305–330]. Additionally, the observed result could not be fully explained by the acoustic distance between stimuli, and discrimination ability was better for speakers with more exposure to and use of Mandarin.

Publisher

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Link

https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article-pdf/doi/10.1121/10.0020266/18054935/075202_1_10.0020266.pdf

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