What do listeners learn from exposure to a vowel distribution? An analysis of listening strategies in distributional learning

Journal of Phonetics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 307-319

  Wanrooij, Karin ^a   Escudero, Paola ^b   Raijmakers, Maartje E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877620838     PISSN: 00954470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Adank P., Van Hout R., Smits R. An acoustic description of the vowels of Northern and Southern Standard Dutch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2004, 116(3):1729-1738.
2. Alderson J.C., Huhta A. The development of a suite of computer-based diagnostic tests based on the Common European Framework. Language Testing 2005, 22:301-320.
3. Allan L.G., Gibbon J. Human bisection at the geometric mean. Learning and Motivation 1991, 22:39-58.
4. Best C. The emergence of native-language phonological influences in infants: A perceptual assimilation model. The development of speech perception: The transition from speech sounds to spoken words 1994, 167-224. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. J. Goodman, H. Nusbaum (Eds.).
5. Boersma P., Escudero P., Hayes R. Learning abstract phonological from auditory phonetic categories: An integrated model for the acquisition of language-specific sound categories. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2003, 1013-1016.
6. Boersma, P., & Weenink, D.Praat: Doing phonetics by computer. (2011). Accessed 10.12.2007). http://www.praat.org.
7. Bohn O.S. Cross-language speech perception in adults. First language transfer doesn't tell it all. Speech perception and linguistic experience: Theoretical and methodological issues in cross-language speech research 1995, 275-300. York Press, Timonium, MD. W. Strange (Ed.).
8. Bohn O.S., Flege J.E. Interlingual identification and the role of foreign language experience in L2 vowel perception. Applied Psycholinguistics 1990, 11:303-328.
9. Bouwmeester S., Sijtsma K., Vermunt J.K. Latent class regression analysis to describe cognitive developmental phenomena: An application to transitive reasoning. European Journal of Developmental Psychology 2004, 1:67-86.
10. Burnham D., Kitamura C., Vollmer-Conna U. What's new, pussycat? On talking to babies and animals. Science 2002, 296(5572):1435. -1435.
11. Cebrian J. Experience and the use of non-native duration in L2 vowel categorization. Journal of Phonetics 2006, 34:372-387.
12. Chandrasekaran B., Sampath P.D., Wong P.C.M. Individual variability in cue-weighting and lexical tone learning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2010, 128(1):456-465.
13. Cheour M., Čeponiené R., Lehtokoski A., Luuk A., Allik J., Alho K., et al. Development of language-specific phoneme representations in the infant brain. Nature Neuroscience 1998, 1(5):351-353.
14. Cristià A., McGuire G.L., Seidl A., Francis A.L. Effects of the distribution of acoustic cues on infants' perception of sibilants. Journal of Phonetics 2011, 39:388-402.
15. Díaz B., Mitterer H., Broersma M., Sebastián-Gallés N. Individual differences in late bilinguals' L2 phonological processes: From acoustic-phonetic analysis to lexical access. Learning and Individual Differences 2012, 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.05.005.
16. Escudero P. Developmental patterns in the adult L2 acquisition of new contrasts: The acoustic cue weighting in the perception of Scottish tense/lax vowels by Spanish speakers 2000, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, [Unpublished Master's thesis].
17. Escudero, P. (2005). Linguistic perception and second-language acquisition: Explaining the attainment of optimal phonological categorization. Utrecht University: LOT Dissertation Series 113 [Doctoral dissertation].
18. Escudero P., Benders T., Lipski S. Native, non-native and L2 perceptual cue weighting for Dutch vowels: The case of Dutch, German and Spanish listeners. Journal of Phonetics 2009, 37:452-465.
19. Escudero P., Benders T., Wanrooij K. Enhanced bimodal distributions facilitate the learning of second language vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2011, 130(4):EL206-EL212.
20. Escudero P., Boersma P. Bridging the gap between L2 speech perception research and phonological theory. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2004, 26:551-585.
21. Escudero P., Chladkova K. Spanish listeners' perception of American and Southern British English vowels: Different initial stages for L2 development. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2010, 128:EL254-EL260.
22. Escudero P., Wanrooij K. The effect of L1 orthography on non-native vowel perception. Language and Speech 2010, 53(3):343-365.
23. Flege J.E. Second language speech learning: Theory, findings, and problems. Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language research 1995, 233-277. York Press, Timonium, MD. W. Strange (Ed.).
24. Flege J.E. Interactions between the native and second-language phonetic systems. An integrated view of language development: Papers in honor of henning wode 2002, 217-243. WVT, Trier, Germany. P. Burmeister, T. Piske, A. Rohde (Eds.).
25. Flege J.E. Assessing constraints on second-language segmental production and perception. Phonetics and phonology in language comprehension and production 2003, 319-355. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. A. Meyer, N. Schiller (Eds.).
26. Flege J.E., Bohn O.-S., Jang S. Effects of experience on non-native speakers' production and perception of English vowels. Journal of Phonetics 1997, 25:437-470.
27. Flege J.E., MacKay I.R.A., Meador D. Native Italian speakers' perception and production of English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1999, 106(5):2973-2987.
28. Flege J.E., MacKay I.R.A. Perceiving vowels in a second language. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2004, 26:1-34.
29. Giezen M., Escudero P., Baker A. Use of acoustic cues by children with cochlear implants. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research 2010, 53(6):1440-1457.
30. Goto H. Auditory perception by normal Japanese adults of the sounds "l" and "r". Neuropsychologia 1971, 9:317-323.
31. Grün B., Leisch F. Fitting finite mixtures of generalized linear regressions in R. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 2007, 51:5247-5252.
32. Guenther F.H., Gjaja M.N. The perceptual magnet effect as an emergent property of neural map formation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1996, 100:1111-1121.
33. Gulian, M., Escudero, P., & Boersma, P. (2007). Supervision hampers distributional learning of vowel contrasts. Proceedings of the international congress of phonetic sciences (pp. 1893-1896), Saarbrücken, Germany.
34. Hayes-Harb R. Lexical and statistical evidence in the acquisition of second language phonemes. Second Language Research 2007, 23(1):65-94.
35. Hollien H., Dew D., Philips P. Phonational frequency ranges of adults. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 1971, 14:755-760.
36. Huang G.-H., Bandeen-Roche K. Building an identifiable latent class model with covariate effects on underlying and measured variables. Psychometrika 2004, 69:5-32.
37. Iverson P., Kuhl P.K., Akahane-Yamada R., Diesch E., Tohkura Y., Kettermann A., et al. A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes. Cognition 2003, 87:B47-B57.
38. Iverson P., Hazan V., Bannister K. Phonetic training with acoustic cue manipulations: A comparison of methods for teaching English /r/-/l/ to Japanese adults. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2005, 118:3267-3278.
39. Iverson P., Evans B.G. Learning English vowels with different first-language vowel systems: Perception of formant targets, formant movement and duration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2007, 122(5):2842-2854.
40. Jaeger T.F. Categorical data analysis: Away from ANOVAs (transformation or not) and towards logit mixed models. Journal of Memory and Language 2008, 59(4):434-446.
41. Jamieson D.G., Morosan D.E. Training non-native speech contrasts in adults: Acquisition of the English /{eth}/-/θ/ contrast by francophones. Perception and Psychophysics 1986, 40(4):205-215.
42. Kewley-Port D., Watson C.S. Formant-frequency discrimination for isolated English vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1994, 95(1):485-496.
43. Klatt D.H. Software for a cascade/parallel formant synthesizer. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1980, 67(3):971-995.
44. Kondaurova M., Francis A. The role of selective attention in the acquisition of English tense and lax vowels by native Spanish listeners: Comparison of three training methods. Journal of Phonetics 2010, 38:569-587.
45. Kuhl P., Andruski J., Chistovich I., Chistovich L., Kozhevnikova E., Ryskina V., et al. Cross-language analysis of phonetic units in language addressed to infants. Science 1997, 227(5326):684-686.
46. Lacerda, F. (1995). The perceptual-magnet effect: An emergent consequence of exemplar-based phonetic memory. In K. Elenius, & P. Branderyd(Eds.) Proceedings of the XIIIth international congress of phonetic sciences, Vol. 2. (pp. 140-147), Stockholm, Stockholm: KTH and Stockholm University.
47. Ladefoged P., Maddieson I. The sounds of the world's languages 2007, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA/Oxford, UK/Carlton, Australia. 10th ed.
48. Leisch F. FlexMix: A general framework for finite mixture models and latent class regression in R. Journal of Statistical Software 2004, 11(8). URL.
49. Lin T.H., Dayton C.M. Model selection information criteria for nonnested latent class models. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 1997, 22(3):249-264.
50. Liu H-M, Kuhl P.K., Tsao F-M. An association between mothers' speech clarity and infants' speech discrimination skills. Developmental Science 2003, 6(3):1-10.
51. Maye J., Gerken L.A. Learning phonemes without minimal pairs. BUCLD 24 Proceedings 2000, 522-533. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA. C. Howell (Ed.).
52. Maye J., Gerken L.A. Learning phonemes: How far can the input take us?. BUCLD 25 Proceedings 2001, 480-490. Cascadilla Press, Somerville, MA. A.H.-J. Do (Ed.).
53. Maye J., Weiss D., Aslin R. Statistical phonetic learning in infants: Facilitation and feature generalization. Developmental Science 2008, 11(1):122-134.
54. Maye J., Werker J.F., Gerken L.A. Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination. Cognition 2002, 82(3):B101-B111.
55. Mayr R., Escudero P. Explaining individual variation in L2 perception: Rounded vowels in English learners of German. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 2010, 13(3):279-297.
56. McCullagh P., Nelder J.A. Generalized linear models 1989, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, Florida. 2nd ed.
57. Miyawaki K., Strange W., Verbrugge R., Liberman A.M., Jenkins J.J., Fujimura O. An effect of linguistic experience: The discrimination of [r] and [l] by native speakers of Japanese and English. Perception and Psychophysics 1975, 18(5):331-340.
58. Morrison G.S. Logistic regression modelling for first- and second-language perception data. Segmental and prosodic issues in romance phonology 2007, 219-236. John Benjamins, Amsterdam. M.J. Solé, P. Prieto, J. Mascaró (Eds.).
59. Morrison G.S. L1-Spanish speakers' acquisition of the English /i/-/I{small}/ contrast: Duration-based perception is not the initial developmental stage. Language and Speech 2008, 51:285-315.
60. Morrison G.S. L1-Spanish speakers' acquisition of the English /i/-/I{small}/ contrast II: Perception of vowel inherent spectral change. Language and Speech 2009, 52:437-462.
61. Moyer, A. (2009). Input as critical means to an end: Quantity and quality of experience in L2 phonological attainment. In T. Piske, & M. Young-Scholten (Eds.), Input matters in SLA (pp. 159-174). Bristol (UK)/Buffalo (USA)/Toronto (Canada): Multilingual Matters.
62. Obleser J., Eulitz C., Lahiri A., Elbert T. Gender differences in functional hemispheric asymmetry during processing of vowels as reflected by the human brain magnetic response. Neuroscience letters 2001, 314:131-134.
63. Oxford R., Nyikos M., Ehrman M. Vive la Différence? Reflections on sex differences in use of language learning strategies. Foreign Language Annals 1988, 21(4):321-329.
64. Piske T., MacKay I.R.A., Flege J.E. Factors affecting degree of foreign accent in an L2: A review. Journal of Phonetics 2001, 29:191-215.
65. Pols L.C.W., Tromp H.R.C., Plomp R. Frequency analysis of Dutch vowels from 50 male speakers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1973, 53:1093-1101.
66. Schmitz N., Malla A., Norman R., Archie S., Zipursky R. Inconsistency in the relationship between duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and negative symptoms: Sorting out the problem of heterogeneity. Schizophrenia Research 2007, 93:152-159.
67. Schwarz G. Estimating the dimension of a model. The Annals of Statistics 1978, 6(2):461-464.
68. Stager C.L., Werker J.F. Infants listen for more phonetic detail in speech perception than in word-learning tasks. Nature 1997, 388:381-382.
69. Stevens S.S., Volkmann J., Newman E.B. A scale for the measurement of the psychological magnitude pitch. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 1937, 8:185-190.
70. Sundberg, U. (2001). Consonant specification in infant-directed speech. Some preliminary results from a study of Voice Onset Time in speech to one-year-olds. In Working Papers 49 (pp. 148-151). Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
71. Sundberg U., Lacerda F. Voice onset time in speech to infants and adults. Phonetica 1999, 56(3-4):186-199.
72. Uther M., Knoll M.A., Burnham D. Do you speak E-NG-L-I-SH? A comparison of foreigner- and infant-directed speech. Speech Communication 2007, 49:2-7.
73. Van Hesse A.J., Schouten M.E.H. Categorical perception as a function of stimulus quality. Phonetica 1999, 56:56-72.
74. Visser I., Raijmakers M.E.J., Pothos E.M. Individual strategies in artificial grammar learning. The American Journal of Psychology 2009, 122(3):293-308.
75. Werker J.F., Logan J.S. Cross-language evidence for three factors in speech perception. Perception and Psychophysics 1985, 37:35-44.
76. Werker J.F., Tees R.C. Cross-language speech perception: Evidence for perceptual reorganization during the first year of life. Infant Behavior and Development 2002, 25:121-133. (First published in 1984: Infant Behavior and Development, 7, 49-63).
77. Yamada R.A. Age and acquisition of second language speech sounds: Perception of American English /r/ and /l/ by native speakers of Japanese. Speech perception and language experience: Issues in cross-language research 1995, 305-320. York Press, Baltimore, MD. W. Strange (Ed.).
78. Yamaguchi K. Multinomial logit latent-class regression models: An analysis of the predictors of gender-role attitudes among Japanese women. American Journal of Sociology 2000, 105(6):1702-1740.
79. Yoshida K.A., Pons F., Maye J., Werker J.F. Distributional phonetic learning at 10 months of age. Infancy 2010, 15(4):420-433.