Language experience, speech perception and loanword adaptation: Variable adaptation of English word-final plosives into Korean

Kwon, Harim

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2016.10.001

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“…An exploratory analysis revealed that speaker-specific patterns make the strongest contribution towards accounting for this, despite the fact that factors known to lead to speaker-specific variability were kept constant (in the current study: gender, education, regional variety spoken). One factor not directly controlled for was proficiency in English, which has been shown to play a role in vowel insertion in consonant-final loan words in Korean (Kwon 2017). However, at the time of recording, all participants had a similar level of English (a minimum of 8 years of English at school and at least one additional English course at University).…”

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“…Next, we included the identity of the word final consonant which appears to be a relevant for non-phonological vowels in other languages (e.g. Ridouane & Fougeron 2011, Frota 2002, Frota et al 2014, Helmuth 2016, Kwon 2017: Factors capturing consonants were categorically coded as phonologically ± voiced, ± sonorant, and ± fricative. We added a factor controlling for word-level durational adjustments looking at the duration of a reference vowel (the stressed vowel) in ms (see e.g.…”

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Word final schwa is driven by intonation—The case of Bari Italian

Grice

Savino

Roettger

2018

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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In order to convey pragmatic functions, a speaker has to select an intonation contour (the tune) in addition to the words that are to be spoken (the text). The tune and text are assumed to be independent of each other, such that any one intonation contour can be produced on different phrases, regardless of the number and nature of the segments they are made up of. However, if the segmental string is too short, certain tunes-especially those with a rising component-call for adjustments to the text. In Italian, for instance, loan words such as "chat" can be produced with a word final schwa when this word occurs at the end of a question. This paper investigates this word final schwa in the Bari variety in a number of different intonation contours. Although its presence and duration is to some extent dependent on idiosyncratic properties of speakers and words, schwa is largely conditioned by intonation. Schwa cannot thus be considered a mere phonetic artefact, since it is relevant for phonology, in that it facilitates the production of communicatively relevant intonation contours.

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Word final schwa is driven by intonation—The case of Bari Italian

Grice

Savino

Roettger

2018

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Based on a cross-linguistic survey of prosodic adaptation, Kang (2010b) suggests that faithfulness to the input prosodic structure will be more significant in the context of high than low bilingualism. In (Best & Tyler, 2007;Bundgaard-Neilson et al, 2011;Nomura & Ishikawa, 2016;Kwon, 2017). These studies find that experienced listeners of the input language (in our case, Mandarin) tend to show more sensitivity to the input language phonological structure and tend to preserve it better in their perception than listeners with limited experience with the input language.…”

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The Effects of Phonetic Duration on Loanword Adaptation: Mandarin Falling Diphthong in Chinese Korean

Ryu¹,

Kang²,

Han³

2020

Lang. Res.

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This study examines how Mandarin falling sonority diphthongs are adapted to a Chinese Korean dialect. It investigates how the subtle phonetic conditions of the source language affect adaptation, and if and how those phonetic effects differ in established loanwords compared to the on-line adaptation of novel loan forms. We found that in this bilingual population, while the Mandarin diphthongs are usually adapted as monophthongs, obeying the native phonological restriction against falling diphthongs, the retention of the input diphthongs in violation of the native constraint is also quite common. Additionally, we found that the choice of the monophthong vs. diphthong realization is strongly affected by the input phonetic duration and in particular, the durational difference among the different tones is robustly reflected in the adaptation patterns.

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“…Many studies on second language phonology focuses on the influence of learners' first language on the segmental production and perception of English as a second language (Flege et al, 2006;Kwon, 2017;Tsukada et al, 2005). A handful of studies on suprasegmentals focused mainly on how foreign accented a learner was (Trofimovich & Baker, 2005).…”

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L2 Korean Speakers’ Thematic Role Resolution in a Psych-predicate Construction

Ahn¹

2020

Lang. Res.

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This study investigated how second language (L2) and heritage Korean learners whose first language (L1) is English identify an ambiguous thematic role (experiencer vs. stimulus) of a null argument psych-predicate construction in Korean. Participants listened to stories where a null argument construction such as 'lwummeituka mwusewun ka poayo' (The roommate must be afraid of ∅ vs. The roommate must be scary) was disambiguated contextually with matching and mismatching prosodies and answered comprehension questions that asked to identify the thematic role of an overt NP. Advanced-level learners were more accurate and faster in identifying a stimulus, preferred Accentual Phrases that accompany the stimulus reading, and showed an interaction between thematic role and prosody. An independent analysis also showed that the preference for stimulus reading could be attributed to the advanced learners being heritage Korean speakers. Hypotheses on different roles of L1 and heritage grammar are discussed in light of the results.

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Language experience, speech perception and loanword adaptation: Variable adaptation of English word-final plosives into Korean

Cited by 19 publications

References 26 publications

Word final schwa is driven by intonation—The case of Bari Italian

Word final schwa is driven by intonation—The case of Bari Italian

The Effects of Phonetic Duration on Loanword Adaptation: Mandarin Falling Diphthong in Chinese Korean

L2 Korean Speakers’ Thematic Role Resolution in a Psych-predicate Construction

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