Effects of Talkers, Listeners, and Vowel Types in the Perception of English VowelsEffects of Talkers, Listeners, and Vowel Types in the Perception of English Vowels
- Other Titles
- Effects of Talkers, Listeners, and Vowel Types in the Perception of English Vowels
- Authors
- 초미희; 이신숙
- Issue Date
- 2013
- Publisher
- 한국영어학학회
- Keywords
- speech intelligibility; English vowels; L1 categories; acoustic-phonetic properties; interlanguage
- Citation
- 영어학연구, v.19, no.2, pp.31 - 56
- Indexed
- KCI
- Journal Title
- 영어학연구
- Volume
- 19
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 31
- End Page
- 56
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/105624
- DOI
- 10.17960/ell.2013.19.2.002
- ISSN
- 1598-9453
- Abstract
- This study explored speech intelligibility of native English listeners and Korean listeners in the perception of English vowels, taking into consideration talker-, listener-, and vowel type-related factors. To that end, 10 English listeners and 41 Korean listeners identified 11 English vowels produced by 2 native English talkers and 21 Korean talkers in a forced-choice identification task. The results showed that the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for talkers (the ISIB-T) was manifested in the vowels [i, eɪ, u] while the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit for non-native listeners (the ISIB-L) was witnessed in the vowels [u, ɛ, ʊ, ʌ]. Thus, the results indicated that the ISIB-T and the ISIB-L showed different patterns depending on talkers, listeners, and vowel types, rather than demonstrating uniform patterns in terms of the presence and absence of matched vs. non-matched vowels between English and Korean. Implications for the findings were further discussed in terms of L1 vowel categories, acoustic-phonetic dimensions of the vowels, and shared properties of Korean-English interlanguage.
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