Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

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An ERP Study of the Perception of English High Front Vowels by Native Speakers of Korean and English

영어전설고모음 인식에 대한 ERP 실험연구: 한국인과 영어원어민을 대상으로

  • Received : 2013.07.24
  • Accepted : 2013.09.23
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is known to be a fronto-centrally negative component of the auditory event-related potentials (ERP). $N\ddot{a}\ddot{a}t\ddot{a}nen$ et al. (1997) and Winkler et al. (1999) discuss that MMN acts as a cue to a phoneme perception in the ERP paradigm. In this study a perception experiment based on an ERP paradigm to check how Korean and American English speakers perceive the American English high front vowels was conducted. The study found that the MMN obtained from both Korean and American English speakers was shown around the same time after they heard F1s of English high front vowels. However, when the same groups heard English words containing them, the American English listeners' MMN was shown to be a little faster than the Korean listeners' MMN. These findings suggest that non-speech sounds, such as F1s of vowels, may be processed similarly across speakers of different languages; however, phonemes are processed differently; a native language phoneme is processed faster than a non-native language phoneme.

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