Abstract
Learning new sounds in a second language requires the
acquisition of new motor routines and new sensorimotor
planning systems needed to ensure coordination. Auditory
feedback is an important part of the planning and control
system required for fluent speech production. ESL vowel
production was studied using a real-time formant perturbation
technique to modify auditory feedback. Three groups of
subjects (Native English, Japanese ESL, and Korean ESL)
produced tokens of the English word “Head” with the first
formant (F1) shifted either up or down in frequency. When F1
was shifted up, compensations by Native English speakers
were larger than either ESL group. The F1 lowering
perturbations produced more similar compensations by all
three groups. This direction asymmetry in magnitude of
compensation is discussed in relation to differences in native
vowel inventories
Keyword: Vowel learning,Speech production
Keyword: Vowel learning,Speech production
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | INTERSPEECH 2010 : Second Language Studies: Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology |
Publication date | 2010 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | INTERSPEECH 2010 : Second Language Studies: Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → … |
Conference
Conference | INTERSPEECH 2010 : Second Language Studies: Acquisition, Learning, Education and Technology |
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City | Tokyo, Japan |
Period | 01/01/2010 → … |