Cross-language acoustic similarity predicts perceptual assimilation of Canadian English and Canadian French vowels |
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Authors: | Escudero Paola Vasiliev Polina |
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Institution: | MARCS Auditory Laboratories, Building 1, University of Western Sydney, Bullecourt Avenue, Milperra, NSW 2214, Australia. paola.escudero@uws.edu.au |
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Abstract: | Monolingual Peruvian Spanish listeners identified natural tokens of the Canadian French (CF) and Canadian English (CE) /?/ and /?/, produced in five consonantal contexts. The results demonstrate that while the CF vowels were mapped to two different native vowels, /e/ and /a/, in all consonantal contexts, the CE contrast was mapped to the single native vowel /a/ in four out of five contexts. Linear discriminant analysis revealed that acoustic similarity between native and target language vowels was a very good predictor of context-specific perceptual mappings. Predictions are made for Spanish learners of the /?/-/?/ contrast in CF and CE. |
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