PERCEPTUAL TRAINING EFFECTS ON PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH /r/-/l/ BY JAPANESE SPEAKERS
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English /r/-/l/ perceptual training for Japanese speakers can improve production. However, it is unclear whether Japanese speakers actually improve their production of the primary acoustic cue for English /r/ and /l/, the third formant frequency (F3). The present study tested whether an English /r/-/l/ identification training program improves Japanese speakers’ production of these phonemes in terms of F3. The results demonstrated that Japanese speakers lowered their F3 in English /r/ production after 5 training sessions, whereas F3 in /l/ production did not significantly change. This may be because F3 of Japanese lateral flap [ɾ] is more similar to English /l/.
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High variability identification and discrimination training for Japanese speakers learning English /r/-/l/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2017.11.002 0095-4470/ 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). q A portion of this work was presented in “Perceptual training effects on production of English /r/–/l/ by Japanese speakers” at the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, London,...
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