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L2 Experience and Non-Native Vowel Categorization of L1-Mandarin Speakers
(2010)
Hsieh, Bo-ren
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Pan, Ho-hsien
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外國文學與語言學碩士班
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Graduate Institute of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics
This study investigates the effect of L2-English experience on the perception of the English tense-lax high vowel contrast. Experienced L1-Mandarin, inexperienced L1-Mandarin and L1-English listeners identified and discriminated synthetic heed-hid and who'd-hood continua varying in five steps of F I, F2, and F3 variations and seven steps of duration variations. The results show a strong reliance on formant variations by L1-English listeners; reliance on duration variations by the inexperienced L1-Mandarin listeners, and a more dominant reliance on formant cues than on duration cues by the experienced L1-Mandarin listeners.