Lexically-guided perceptual learning in non-native listening

• POLINA DROZDOVA ^[1] ; ROELAND VAN HOUT ^[1] ; ODETTE SCHARENBORG ^[1]
  1. [1] Radboud University Nijmegen

     Radboud University Nijmegen

     Países Bajos

     
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 19, Nº 5, 2016, págs. 914-920
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There is ample evidence that native and non-native listeners use lexical knowledge to retune their native phonetic categories following ambiguous pronunciations. The present study investigates whether a non-native ambiguous sound can retune non-native phonetic categories. After a brief exposure to an ambiguous British English [l/ɹ] sound, Dutch listeners demonstrated retuning. This retuning was, however, asymmetrical: the non-native listeners seemed to show (more) retuning of the /ɹ/ category than of the /l/ category, suggesting that non-native listeners can retune non-native phonetic categories. This asymmetry is argued to be related to the large phonetic variability of /r/ in both Dutch and English.