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Sink positive: Linguistic experience with th substitutions influences nonnative word recognition

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Hanulikova,  Adriana
Adaptive Listening, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain;

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Weber,  Andrea
Adaptive Listening, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations;

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Hanulikova, A., & Weber, A. (2012). Sink positive: Linguistic experience with th substitutions influences nonnative word recognition. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 74(3), 613-629. doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0259-7.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-29EA-A
Abstract
We used eyetracking, perceptual discrimination, and production tasks to examine the influences of perceptual similarity and linguistic experience on word recognition in nonnative (L2) speech. Eye movements to printed words were tracked while German and Dutch learners of English heard words containing one of three pronunciation variants (/t/, /s/, or /f/) of the interdental fricative /θ/. Irrespective of whether the speaker was Dutch or German, looking preferences for target words with /θ/ matched the preferences for producing /s/ variants in German speakers and /t/ variants in Dutch speakers (as determined via the production task), while a control group of English participants showed no such preferences. The perceptually most similar and most confusable /f/ variant (as determined via the discrimination task) was never preferred as a match for /θ/. These results suggest that linguistic experience with L2 pronunciations facilitates recognition of variants in an L2, with effects of frequency outweighing effects of perceptual similarity.