TY - JOUR
T1 - The acquisition of /r/ and /l/ by Japanese learners of English
T2 - Evidence that speech production can precede speech perception
AU - Sheldon, A.
AU - Strange, W.
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - This study examines the relationship between the production and perception of English /r/ and /l/ by native Japanese adults learning English in the United States. For some subjects, production of the contrast was more accurate than their perception of it, replicating and extending a previous finding reported by Goto (1971) in Japan. The difficulty in perception of the liquid contrast varied with its position in the word. Prevocalic /r/ and /l/ in consonant clusters yielded the greatest perceptual errors, while word-final liquids were accurately perceived. This pattern of errors is not predictable on the basis of contrastive phonological analysis, but might be the result of acoustic-phonetic factors. Implications for second language pedagogy are discussed.
AB - This study examines the relationship between the production and perception of English /r/ and /l/ by native Japanese adults learning English in the United States. For some subjects, production of the contrast was more accurate than their perception of it, replicating and extending a previous finding reported by Goto (1971) in Japan. The difficulty in perception of the liquid contrast varied with its position in the word. Prevocalic /r/ and /l/ in consonant clusters yielded the greatest perceptual errors, while word-final liquids were accurately perceived. This pattern of errors is not predictable on the basis of contrastive phonological analysis, but might be the result of acoustic-phonetic factors. Implications for second language pedagogy are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0142716400001417
DO - 10.1017/S0142716400001417
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0020365512
SN - 0142-7164
VL - 3
SP - 243
EP - 261
JO - Applied Psycholinguistics
JF - Applied Psycholinguistics
IS - 3
ER -