Notes on Polish Phonotactics

Bluhme, H.

doi:10.1515/ling.1971.9.69.5

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“…Although we have no knowledge of the similar experimental studies investigating the perception of tone patterns used in phonetic training in prosody of English, we may attempt to relate the current results to the observations from teaching the perception of tone contrasts in tone languages. It is frequently reported by teachers of Mandarin Chinese that tone contrasts are one of the most diffi cult aspects to learn for speakers of non-tone languages (Bluhme and Burr 1971;Kiriloff 1969;Lin 1985). However, even two weeks of tone training in learning Chinese signifi cantly improves identifi cation of those tones (Wang et al 1999).…”

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Discrimination of English tone contours by Polish learners

2023

Linguistica Silesiana

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In the current study, we test the discrimination of four basic English tone contours in monosyllabic words by Polish learners using an AXB task and we compare these results to the results of an identifi cation test. Discrimination does not require access to phonological labels and is claimed to tap core auditory mechanism. Relatively high discrimination performance by Polish learners and poor identifi cation performance indicate that diffi culties with correct identifi cation of English tones are solely diffi culties with labelling.

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