The Effect of Language Immersion on the Acquisition of Second Language Suprasegmentals

Kang, Seokhan; Guion-Anderson, Susan; Rhee, Seok-Chae; Ahn, Hyunkee

doi:10.17154/kjal.2012.03.28.1.179

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“…Generally, it is well-known that the effect of L2 experience has been suggested to play a key role in acquiring the target language, changing the perceptual patterns. For example, Kang et al, (2012) claimed that speakers tended to impose their acquired phonetic patterns on their L2 speaking proportional to the L2 experience. In their study, immersion-experienced Korean learners of English produced different intonational features from the Korean learners of English without such immersion experience in the English production under the circumstance of virtually equal English proficiency.…”

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“…L2 development has been influenced by the effect of the age (Guion et al, 2000;Tahta et al, 1981), language experience (Kang et al, 2012), the background of the native language (Archibald, 1995;Guion et al, 2000Guion et al, , 2004, and motivation (Conrad, 1991;Moyer, 1999). Among various effects, it is well-agreed that the effect of L2 experience has been suggested to play a key role in acquiring the target language, even for the adults (Aoyama et al, 2008;Kang et al, 2012). In this respect, it assumes that the perception of the nasals, so called denasalization occurred in word-initial position of Korean, could be affected by the L2 experience even for the adult English natives.…”

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The effect of L2 experience on perception of Korean nasals

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Kang²

2016

Phonetics and Speech Sciences

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Twenty five English native speakers with two different L2 experienced groups and nineteen native Koreans heard both Korean word-initial nasals (/m/ and /n/) in three vowel contexts (low, mid, and high) produced by a native Korean speaker. The experiment examined the hypothesis that Korean nasals are more likely to be judged or perceived correctly by the L2-experienced English learners of Korean than the unexperienced counterparts. The result showed that L2 experienced group was more sensitive to effects of vowel height in judging the Korean nasals in which the perception of nasals before the high vowels was more subject to it. In addition, place of nasal articulation causes asymmetry relations -bilabial nasal /m/ is more likely to be perceived as plosives rather than alveolar nasal /n/. The study found that the L2 experience has a somewhat limited role in perceiving the nasals correctly in the word-initial position, especially before the high vowels, in that even the L2 experienced English subjects have difficulty in identifying the Korean nasals correctly in this environment. Nevertheless, low L2 proficiency might be accounted for the difficulty in the bilabial nasal identification observed by the L2 experienced group.

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