Yerel olmayan fonemik kontrastların algısal doğruluğu hakkında: Anadili Arapça Konuşanlar hakkında bir vaka çalışması

Anadili Arapça olanların ana dili İngilizce olmayan fonemik karşıtlık algısı üzerine yapılan araştırmalar çeşitli sonuçlar ortaya koymuştur. Bazı araştırmalar, ana dili Arapça olanların ana dili İngilizce olmayan fonemik zıtlıkların algılanmasında zorluk yaşadıklarını ortaya koyarken, diğerleri büyük ölçüde bu tür zorluklarla karşılaşmadıkları sonucuna varmıştır. Bu tutarsızlık nedeniyle, mevcut çalışma, ana dili Arapça konuşanlar tarafından gerçekleştirilen başlangıç pozisyonlarında yalnızca İngilizce labial kategorilerinin / p, b, f ve v / genel algısal doğruluğunu incelemeyi amaçlamıştır. Çalışma ayrıca fonetik bağlamların potansiyel etkilerini ve test edilen uyaranların katılımcıların algısal performansı üzerindeki aşinalığını da inceledi. Yirmi dört Suudi erkek katılımcı ünsüz fonem tanımlama ve ayrımcılık görevlerini tamamladı. Bulgular, katılımcıların / p / ve / v / kategorilerini algılamada güçlük yaşadıklarını ve onları meslektaşları / b / ve / f / ile karıştırdıklarını ortaya koymuştur. Bulgular ayrıca, / v / kategorisinin ardından arka ünlülerin geldiği bağlam dışında, ne fonetik bağlamın ne de aşinalığın katılımcıların söz konusu tüm kategorilerin algısal doğruluğu üzerinde herhangi bir etkisi olmadığını ortaya koydu. Bu spesifik bağlamda, katılımcıların performansı daha düşük olma eğilimindeydi, bu da dudak yuvarlamanın etkisine atfedilebilir, bu da bu kategori (/ v /) ile ilişkili sürtünmeli gürültü ile birlikte eklemlenme ile sonuçlanır. Son olarak, bu çalışmada elde edilen sonuçlar, işitsel fonetik hakkında önemli ek bilgiler sağlar ve insan işitme sisteminin konuşma seslerini nasıl tanıdığına dair ek açıklamalar sunar.

On the perceptual accuracy of non-native phonemic contrasts: A case study of Native Arabic Speakers

Research on native Arabic speakers’ perception of non-native English phonemic contrasts has manifested variousconclusions. Some studies have revealed that native Arabic speakers experience difficulty in the perception ofnon-native English phonemic contrasts, where others have concluded that they largely do not experience suchdifficulty. Due to this discrepancy, the current study aimed to examine the overall perceptual accuracy of only theEnglish labial categories /p, b, f, and v/ in onset positions performed by native Arabic speakers. The study alsoexamined the potential effects of the phonetic contexts and the familiarity of the stimuli being tested on theparticipants’ perceptual performance. Twenty-four Saudi male participants completed consonantal phonemeidentification and discrimination tasks. The findings revealed that the participants experienced difficulty in theperception of the categories /p/ and /v/, confusing them with their counterparts /b/ and /f/. The findings alsorevealed that neither phonetic context nor familiarity had any effect on the participants’ perceptual accuracy of allof the categories in question, except in the context in which the category /v/ was followed by back vowels. In thisspecific context, the participants’ performance tended to be lower, which could be attributed to the influence of liprounding, which results in coarticulation with the fricative noise associated with this category (/v/). Lastly, theresults obtained in this study provide additional crucial insights into auditory phonetics and present additionalexplanation on how the human auditory system recognizes speech sounds.© 2020 JLLS and the Authors - Published by JLLS.

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