Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners

Hallé, Pierre; Ridouane, Rachid; Best, Catherine T.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00209

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“…Cross-language perception has also been used to understand how language experience can be leveraged from an L1 to support the perception of typologically rarer sound contrasts in a non-native language. Relevantly, one study examined discrimination of the singleton-geminate contrast across different word positions (initial vs. final) in Tashlhiyt by naive listeners (whose L1 was French) (Hallé, Ridouane, & Best, 2016). They found that French listeners were better at discriminating between singleton and geminate segments when they were in word-final position, relative to word-initial position.…”

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Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Zellou

Lahrouchi

Bensoukas

2022

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Tashlhiyt Berber is known for having typologically unusual word-initial phonological contrasts, specifically, word-initial singleton-geminate minimal pairs (e.g., sin vs ssin) and sequences of consonants that violate the sonority sequencing principle (e.g., non-rising sonority sequences: fsin). The current study investigates the role of a listener-oriented speaking style on the perceptual enhancement of these rarer phonological contrasts. It examines the perception of word-initial singleton, geminate, and complex onsets in Tashlhiyt Berber across clear and casual speaking styles by native and naive listeners. While clear speech boosts the discriminability of pairs containing singleton-initial words for both listener groups, only native listeners performed better in discriminating between initial singleton-geminate contrasts in clear speech. Clear speech did not improve perception for lexical contrasts containing a non-rising-sonority consonant cluster for either listener group. These results are discussed in terms of how clear speech can inform phonological typology and the role of phonetic enhancement in language-universal vs language-specific speech perception.

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Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Zellou

Lahrouchi

Bensoukas

2022

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Research on foreign language (FL) speech learning focusing on non-segmental features such as length is increasing (e.g. Altmann et al, 2012 for German and Italian; McAllister et al, 2002 for Swedish; Meister and Meister, 2011 for Estonian; Ylinen et al, 2005 for Finnish; Hallé et al, 2016 for Tashlhiyt Berber). However, as pointed out in Altmann et al (2012) and Hallé et al (2016), most of it focuses on English (e.g.…”

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“…Altmann et al, 2012 for German and Italian; McAllister et al, 2002 for Swedish; Meister and Meister, 2011 for Estonian; Ylinen et al, 2005 for Finnish; Hallé et al, 2016 for Tashlhiyt Berber). However, as pointed out in Altmann et al (2012) and Hallé et al (2016), most of it focuses on English (e.g. Han, 1992; Hayes-Harb, 2005) or Korean learners (e.g.…”

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Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds

Tsukada

Hajek

2022

Second Language Research

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This study compared individuals from two first language (L1) backgrounds (Italian, Mandarin) to determine how they may differ in their perception of Japanese consonant length (i.e. singleton vs. geminate) according to the phonemic status of length in L1 and experience with Japanese. The participants included two groups of non-native learners of Japanese: 14 native Italian speakers (NI + Japanese), 18 native Mandarin speakers (NM + Japanese) and two control groups: 14 native Italian (NI – Japanese) speakers naïve to Japanese, 10 native Japanese (NJ) speakers. The participants’ length perception accuracy was examined in a forced-choice identification task. The NJ listeners hardly misperceived any tokens, but the non-native listeners were generally accurate (> 85%) in identifying the Japanese length category. The NI – Japanese group was slightly (albeit non-significantly) more accurate than the NM + Japanese group, suggesting the possibility that the use of phonemic length in L1 was facilitative. The direction of misperception (i.e. singleton as geminate or geminate as singleton) differed according to different group. Non-native learners’ results also provided evidence for plasticity in cross-linguistic perception in adulthood.

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L'interférence de la gémination dans la prononciation des étudiants arabophones apprenant le français [The interference of gemination in the pronunciation of Arabic-speaking students learning French]

Nawafleh¹

2022

e-FLT

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Cette étude expérimentale se propose de diagnostiquer l’effet de la langue arabe sur la prononciation des étu-diants arabophones apprenant le français. Elle comporte les résultats de mesures acoustiques portant sur la durée acoustique des consonnes graphiquement doubles dans la prononciation de locutrices natives du fran-çais et d’étudiantes jordaniennes. L’étude inclut également des tests perceptifs effectués auprès d’auditeurs arabophones non apprenants. L’étude acoustique démontrent que les consonnes cibles prononcées par les apprenantes sont significativement plus longues que celles produites par les locutrices françaises. Les tests de perception soulignent que la plupart des mots cibles ont été réalisés avec des consonnes géminées par les ap-prenantes. Les apprenantes prononcent les consonnes, qui doivent habituellement se prononcer comme si elles étaient simples, de manière géminée. La recherche trouve sa conclusion dans des propositions pratiques ayant pour objet d’aider les apprenants à surmonter l’interférence de la gémination de l’arabe vers le français.

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Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners

Cited by 3 publications

References 71 publications

Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Cross-language perception of Japanese consonant length by speakers from Italian- and Mandarin-speaking backgrounds

L'interférence de la gémination dans la prononciation des étudiants arabophones apprenant le français [The interference of gemination in the pronunciation of Arabic-speaking students learning French]

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