Native dialect matters: Perceptual assimilation of Dutch vowels by Czech listeners

Chládková, Kateřina; Podlipský, Václav Jonáš

doi:10.1121/1.3629135

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“…This claim that L2 perceptual patterns differ according to the native dialect is supported in a number of studies. For example, Moravian and Bohemian Czech listeners showed differential perceptual assimilation patterns of Dutch which seemed to correspond to differences in the acoustic realizations of their vowels in their native dialect (Chládková and Podlipský 2011). Likewise, Escudero and Williams (2012) showed that differences in the acoustic realizations of Iberian and Peruvian Spanish vowels led to differences in their discrimination accuracy of some Dutch vowel contrasts.…”

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Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

2018

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Studies show that second language (L2) learners’ perceptual patterns differ depending on their native dialect (e.g., Chládková and Podlipský 2011; Escudero and Williams 2012). Likewise, speakers from the same native language background show different perceptual patterns depending on the dialect to which they are exposed (e.g., Escudero and Boersma 2004; Escudero and Chládková 2010). The Second Language Linguistic Perception model (L2LP; Escudero 2005) accounts for these differences, explicitly stating that the acoustic similarity between the native and target dialect affects L2 perception. This study investigated whether Californian English monolingual and Spanish–English bilingual listeners differ in their perception of European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) vowels. Escudero et al. (2009a) showed that there were differences in the acoustic realization of vowels in BP and EP. Stressed vowels were longer in BP than in EP, with differences in vowel height observed for some vowels (e.g., /ɛ/ is higher in EP than in BP). According to the L2LP model, these acoustic differences between dialects will affect vowel perception; therefore, we predicted that there would be differences in the listeners’ perception of certain vowel contrasts in BP and EP. Participants completed a non-native categorization task and a discrimination task presented in the XAB format. The results from the non-native categorization task predicted differential vowel perception depending on both the dialect and vowel contrast that listeners heard, which were mostly confirmed with an interaction between dialect and contrast in the discrimination results. We contextualize these results with respect to models of L2 speech perception, highlighting that dialectal differences impact language perception and may influence later language learning.

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Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

2018

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“…Crucially, this reflected the voicing assimilation rules of the respective L1 languages, which differ in the pre-sonorant context. Importantly, Chládková and Podlipský (2011) showed that learning L2 speech sounds contrasts is not only language-specific, but also variety-specific. They examined the cross-language perception of Dutch vowels by speakers of the Bohemian and Moravian varieties of Czech.…”

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Dialectal differences in voicing assimilation patterns: The case of Moravian Czech English

Šturm¹,

Tylečková²

2019

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One challenge for the second language (L2) learner of English is to master a novel phonetic implementation of the voicing contrast, whereas another challenge is to learn how consonant sequences behave in connected speech. Learners of English coming from three different language backgrounds were tested; their native varieties were Bohemian Czech, Moravian Czech, and Slovak. The Moravian variety of Czech is more similar in voicing assimilation to the Slovak language than to the Bohemian variety of Czech. Percentage of phonetic voicing was measured in the L2 (i.e. English) word-final obstruents preceding three classes of sounds: voiceless and voiced obstruents, and sonorants. Bohemian and Moravian speakers exhibited different strategies in pre-sonorant contexts, following their native (variety-specific) assimilation rules.

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“…In other words, it is not until recently that the L1 regional variety been taken into account as a factor potentially influencing perception (e.g. Chládková and Podlipský 2011;Escudero et al 2011;Escudero and Williams 2012;Marinescu 2012) and production (e.g. Lew 2002;O'Brien and Smith 2010;Marinescu 2012) of L2 sounds.…”

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“…For Peninsular Spanish speakers, the opposite held: they produced the vowels with significant durational but no spectral differences. Chládková and Podlipský (2011) investigated the influence of dialectal differences in Bohemian and Moravian Czech on Dutch vowel perception. Their study focused on the high front vowel region, in which Czech has fewer vowel phonemes than Dutch.…”

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The effect of L1 regional variation on the perception and production of standard L1 and L2 vowels

2015

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Native dialect matters: Perceptual assimilation of Dutch vowels by Czech listeners

Cited by 30 publications

References 17 publications

Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

Non-Native Dialect Matters: The Perception of European and Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by Californian English Monolinguals and Spanish–English Bilinguals

Dialectal differences in voicing assimilation patterns: The case of Moravian Czech English

The effect of L1 regional variation on the perception and production of standard L1 and L2 vowels

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