MORA OR PHONEME - FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC LISTENING

被引:156
作者
CUTLER, A
OTAKE, T
机构
[1] MRC,APPL PSYCHOL UNIT,CAMBRIDGE,ENGLAND
[2] DOKKYO UNIV,SOKA,JAPAN
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D O I
10.1006/jmla.1994.1039
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
Japanese listeners detect speech sound targets which correspond precisely to a mora (a phonological unit which is the unit of rhythm in Japanese) more easily than targets which do not. English listeners detect medial vowel targets more slowly than consonants. Six phoneme detection experiments investigated these effects in both subject populations, presented with native- and foreign-language input. Japanese listeners produced faster and more accurate responses to moraic than to nonmoraic targets both in Japanese and, where possible, in English; English listeners responded differently. The detection disadvantage for medial vowels appeared with English listeners both in English and in Japanese; again, Japanese listeners responded differently. Some processing operations which listeners apply to speech input are language-specific; these language-specific procedures, appropriate for listening to input in the native language, may be applied to foreign-language input irrespective of whether they remain appropriate. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.
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页码:824 / 844
页数:21
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