Non-native vowel perception: The interplay of categories and features
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2018
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The book Non-native vowel perception: The interplay of categories and features is devoted to vowel perception in the second, third and foreign language by Polish advanced learners English, French or Dutch as the second and third language in a formal classroom instruction setting. So far it has been assumed that non-native sound perception is based on assimilation to the first language categories or new category formation. The present book hypothesizes that also individual phonetic features, which the learner is familiar with, and the lack of reaction to unknown features play a role in speech perception. The first study is a longitudinal English vowel perception study which examines which features ease perception development. Studies two and three examine whether and, if so, to what extent, the phonetic features known from the L2 and L3 influence non-native perception. It is tested how the learners of English, French and Dutch perceive Dutch and Turkish vowels. The studies have confirmed the main impact of categories, which act as magnets, but they have also shown the role and the hierarchy of phonetic features in non-native vowel perception.
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This publication has been a result of a research project nr UMO-2015/17/B/HS2/02146 "Perceptual reorganization of speech: The interplay of categories and features" financed by the National Science Centre, Poland.
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second language acquisition of speech, vowel perception, perception of foreign language speech, selective attention to features
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Balas A., Non-native vowel perception: The interplay of categories and features, Poznań 2018.