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Lexically-guided perceptual learning in non-native listening*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2016

POLINA DROZDOVA ,
ROELAND VAN HOUT  and
ODETTE SCHARENBORG
POLINA DROZDOVA*
Affiliation:
Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands IMPRS for Language Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
ROELAND VAN HOUT
Affiliation:
Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
ODETTE SCHARENBORG
Affiliation:
Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
*
Address for correspondence: Polina Drozdova, Centre for Language Studies, Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Erasmusplein 1, Postbus 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegenp.drozdova@let.ru.nl
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Abstract

There is ample evidence that native and non-native listeners use lexical knowledge to retune their native phonetic categories following ambiguous pronunciations. The present study investigates whether a non-native ambiguous sound can retune non-native phonetic categories. After a brief exposure to an ambiguous British English [l/ɹ] sound, Dutch listeners demonstrated retuning. This retuning was, however, asymmetrical: the non-native listeners seemed to show (more) retuning of the /ɹ/ category than of the /l/ category, suggesting that non-native listeners can retune non-native phonetic categories. This asymmetry is argued to be related to the large phonetic variability of /r/ in both Dutch and English.

Keywords

lexically-guided perceptual learningnon-native listeningliquids
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Research Notes
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 19 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 914 - 920
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Footnotes

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This research is supported by a Vidi-grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO; grant number: 276-89-003) awarded to Odette Scharenborg. We thank Stephen Bodnar, Bart Penning de Vries, and Alastair Smith for their help in stimulus preparation, Juul Coumans for her help in co-running the experiment, Sven Mattys for the use of his testing facilities, and James McQueen for insightful discussions on the results.

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