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Perception of English consonants in Koreans and Japanese

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2009, v.21 no.2, pp.111-128
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2009.21.2.004


& (2009). Perception of English consonants in Koreans and Japanese. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 21(2), 111-128, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2009.21.2.004

Abstract

Twenty two Koreans and twelve Japanese living in South Korea have been examined for their perceptual identification of an initial consonant in English syllables with or without white noise. A confusion matrix was then subject to analyses of additive clustering, individual difference scaling, and the probability of transmitted information, the results of which were compared to those of four English speakers living in South Korea. Koreans were confused with sounds which have the same place of articulation but the different manner of articulation (closure and continuant) like /ʤ/-/z/, /s/-/ɵ/, /b/-/v/, /d/-/ð/ pairs. Japanese were confused with the sounds which have the same manner of articulation but the different place of articulation like /l/-/r/, /s/-/ɵ/, /z/-/ð/, and /f/-/ɵ/ pairs. The overall results showed that Korean and Japanese who were assumed to have the same difficulties in perceiving English consonants actually have the quite different error patterns with English consonants. These difference might be caused by their perceptual structure with mother languages. This study suggests that the method for acquisition of English phonology should be modified depending on learner's phonology of mother language.

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외국어 음운, 영어 자음, 한국인, 일본인, 지각 혼동, foreign language acquisition, English consonants, Korean, Japanese, perceptual confusion

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