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THE EFFECTS OF L1–L2 PHONOLOGICAL MAPPINGS ON L2 PHONOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY

EVIDENCE FROM SELF-PACED LISTENING

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2020

Jeong-eun Kim Open the ORCID record for Jeong-eun Kim [Opens in a new window] ,
Yejin Cho ,
Youngsun Cho ,
Yeonjung Hong ,
Seohyun Kim  and
Hosung Nam Open the ORCID record for Hosung Nam [Opens in a new window]
Jeong-eun Kim*
Affiliation:
Jeonbuk National University
Yejin Cho
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin
Youngsun Cho
Affiliation:
Korea University
Yeonjung Hong
Affiliation:
Korea University
Seohyun Kim
Affiliation:
Korea University
Hosung Nam*
Affiliation:
Korea University Haskins Laboratories
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*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jeong-eun Kim, Department of English Language and Literature, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do 54896, Republic of Korea. E-mail: jek48@jbnu.ac.kr; and Hosung Nam, Department of English Language and Literature, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Anamdong 5-ga, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea, and Haskins Laboratories, Speech Production and Perception, 300 George Street #900, New Haven, CT 06511. E-mail: hnam@korea.ac.kr.
*Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jeong-eun Kim, Department of English Language and Literature, Jeonbuk National University, 567 Baekje-daero, Deokjin-gu, Jeonju-si, Jeollabuk-do 54896, Republic of Korea. E-mail: jek48@jbnu.ac.kr; and Hosung Nam, Department of English Language and Literature, Korea University, 145 Anam-ro, Anamdong 5-ga, Sungbuk-gu, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea, and Haskins Laboratories, Speech Production and Perception, 300 George Street #900, New Haven, CT 06511. E-mail: hnam@korea.ac.kr.
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Abstract

This study examines the effects of asymmetrical mappings of L2 sounds to L1 sounds on real-time processing of L2 phonology. L1-Korean participants completed a self-paced listening (SPL) task paired with a picture verification (PV) task, in which an English sentence was presented word by word along with a picture that matched or mismatched the sentence. In the critical region, an L2 vowel was deliberately replaced with the wrong vowel for two types of English vowel pairs: Type 1: English vowel pairs showing a one-to-one mapping to Korean counterparts (e.g., English: /i/ and /æ/ to Korean /i/ and /æ/, respectively); and Type 2: English vowel pairs showing a two-to-one mapping to a Korean counterpart (e.g., English /i/ and /ɪ/ to Korean /i/). We analyzed response times (RTs) and PV accuracy. Longer RTs were observed for Type 1 errors than Type 2 errors, indicating lower sensitivity to L2 vowels with two-to-one mapping to an L1 vowel. Also, PV accuracy was lower for the sentences containing Type 2 errors. These results suggest that asymmetrical L2-L1 sound mapping can affect learners’ processing of L2 phonological knowledge, which in turn can negatively affect their comprehension.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 42 , Issue 5 , December 2020 , pp. 1041 - 1076
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF- 2016S1A5A2A03926788).

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