Phonetic Encoding of Coda Voicing Contrast under Different Focus Conditions in Li vs. L2 English
- Authors
- Choi, J (Choi, Jiyoun); Kim, S (Kim, Sahayng); Cho, T (Cho, Taehong)
- Issue Date
- May-2016
- Publisher
- FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
- Keywords
- english coda voicing; L2 speech; prominence; focus; prosodic structure; phonetics-prosody interface; Korean learners of English
- Citation
- FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, v.7, pp 1 - 17
- Pages
- 17
- Journal Title
- FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
- Volume
- 7
- Start Page
- 1
- End Page
- 17
- URI
- https://scholarworks.sookmyung.ac.kr/handle/2020.sw.sookmyung/147060
- DOI
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00624
- ISSN
- 1664-1078
- Abstract
- This study investigated how coda voicing contrast in English would be phonetically encoded in the temporal vs. spectral dimension of the preceding vowel (in vowel duration vs. F1/F2) by Korean L2 speakers of English, and how their I 2 phonetic encoding pattern would be compared to that of native English speakers. Crucially, these questions were explored by taking into account the phonetics-prosody interface, testing effects of prominence by comparing target segments in three focus conditions (phonological focus, lexical focus, and no focus). Results showed that Korean speakers utilized the temporal dimension (vowel duration) to encode coda voicing contrast, but failed to use the spectral dimension (F1/F2), reflecting their native language experience i.e., with a more sparsely populated vowel space in Korean, they are less sensitive to small changes in the spectral dimension, and hence fine-grained spectral cues in English are not readily accessible. Results also showed that along the temporal dimension, both the L1 and L2 speakers hyperarticulated coda voicing contrast under prominence (when phonologically or lexically focused), but hypoarticulated it in the non-prominent condition. This indicates that low-level phonetic realization and high order information structure interact in a communicatively efficient way
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