Effects of Talkers, Listeners, and Vowel Types in the Perception of English Vowels
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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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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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