Perceptual discrimination and categorization of vowels in different levels of foreign language instruction

• Ane Icardo Isasa ^[1]
  1. [1] California State University, Northridge

     California State University, Northridge

     Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology, ISSN 0582-6152, Vol. 57, Nº. 1-2, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Jose Ignazio Hualderen Omenez: Ikerketak Fonologiaz eta Diakroniaz), págs. 475-494
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper reports on the development of L2 English vowel pair perception by adult L1 Spanish/Basque speakers of differing levels of English instruction. This study focuses on vowel pairs /i-ɪ/, /u-ʊ/ and /ʌ-ɔ/, with differing levels of proximity to native categories. Re-sults of two perceptual tasks show that learners are influenced by their native categories, but that regardless of level, they can still modify their representations. However, the success in categoriza-tion varies by sound based on acoustic distance and multiple category competition.