Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanística, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus UAB, Bellaterra 08193, Spain.
J Acoust Soc Am. 2021 Apr;149(4):2671. doi: 10.1121/10.0004257.
This study reports the results of two experiments aimed at assessing the perceived similarity between English and Catalan vowels and diphthongs. Perceived similarity judgements were elicited from speakers of both languages involved and were compared to first language identification data from the same speakers. In experiment 1, a group of 27 naive Catalan listeners performed a perceptual assimilation task in which they were asked to identify Catalan and English vowels in terms of native categories and provide a goodness of fit rating. In experiment 2, a group of native speakers of Southern British English performed an adaptation of the same task. The results showed that most non-native vowels were consistently perceived as instances of a given native category, with varying degrees of goodness of fit. In a few cases, assimilation scores were very high in both experiments, pointing to the possibility of near-identical or shared categories. A few asymmetrical mappings were found, which were linked to the influence of language-specific cues such as the role of vowel duration in English. These results emphasize the importance of contrasting native and non-native perception and the potential of reciprocal approaches for making predictions about non-native perception and second language development.
这项研究报告了两项实验的结果，旨在评估英语和加泰罗尼亚语元音和双元音之间的感知相似性。感知相似性判断是由两种语言的使用者发出的，并与同一使用者的母语识别数据进行了比较。在实验 1 中，一组 27 名天真的加泰罗尼亚听众进行了感知同化任务，他们被要求根据母语类别识别加泰罗尼亚语和英语元音，并提供拟合度评分。在实验 2 中，一组来自英国南部的母语为英语的人进行了相同任务的改编。结果表明，大多数非母语元音都被一致地感知为给定母语类别的实例，拟合度不同。在少数情况下，两个实验中的同化分数都非常高，表明存在几乎相同或共享的类别。还发现了一些不对称的映射，这与语言特定线索的影响有关，例如英语中元音时长的作用。这些结果强调了对比母语和非母语感知的重要性，以及对于非母语感知和第二语言发展进行预测的互惠方法的潜力。
