English voicing contrast in Seoul Korean and Mandarin Chinese learners of English

• 발행기관: 경희대학교 언어정보연구소
• 저자명: Yalin Wang Harim Kwon
• 간행물 정보: 『언어연구』제42권 제2호, 365~398쪽, 전체 34쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2025.06.30

국문 초록

The currentstudy explores how L1 language background and L2 English proficiency influence SeoulKorean and Mandarin Chinese speakers' cue weighting patterns of VOT (voice onsettime) and post-onset f0 (fundamental frequency) in distinguishing stop voicing contrastin their L2 English. English, Seoul Korean, and Mandarin Chinese differ in the phoneticimplementation of their stop laryngeal contrasts. Stop VOT and post-onset f0 are relatedto the stop laryngeal contrasts in all three languages, but the role of these two phoneticcues differ (e.g., Whalen et al. 1993; Kang and Guion 2008; Guo and Kwon 2022). Inspeech production experiments including English voiceless and voiced stops, we finddifference between Seoul Korean and Mandarin Chinese speakers, providing evidencefor L1 influence on the learners' stop production. English proficiency also influencesthe phonetic implementation of the stop voicing contrast, but the proficiency effectsare complicated, interacting with gender and phonological factors. The effects of L1system on the L2 phonetic implementation, as well as the complexity of the proficiencyeffects, are explained by the phonetic distance between the target English sounds andthe closest L1 sounds, in the Speech Learning Model (Flege 1995).

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1. Introduction

2. Methods

3. Results

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

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키워드

Stop voicing contrast L1 background L2 proficiency voice onset time fundamental frequency