2021.09.06 20:34
Lee, Hyunjung and Eun
Jong Kong. 2021. The effect of linguistic exposure to the standard dialect in
the perception of Korean stops. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 27.2. 275-291. The current study examined whether natural exposure
to a different dialect affected listeners’ perceptual cue weighting, and whether
listeners shifted their cue weightings similarly toward speakers of the dialect
to which they were exposed. We examined perception of the three-way laryngeal
contrast of Korean stops across the Seoul and Kyungsang dialects, which differ
in the cue-weighting pattern for stop distinction; while Seoul speakers use f0
more than VOT, Kyungsang speakers rely more on VOT. We tested stop
identification for 92 adult listeners grouped by dialect experiences: Seoul vs.
Kyungsang vs. Kyungsang-Seoul. The listeners in the Seoul and Kyungsang groups
were college students pursuing higher education in their native dialect
regions, whereas the Kyungsang-Seoul listeners were students who moved to the Seoul
area for higher education. Mixed effects logistic regression analyses showed
that Kyungsang-Seoul listeners accommodated their use of VOT and f0 cues similarly
to Seoul listeners, but also diverged from Kyungsang listeners’ cue weighting patterns.
These results suggest that natural exposure to the standard Seoul dialect affected
the perceptual accommodation of sub-phonemic acoustic cue weighting. (Incheon National University, Assistant Professor; Korea Aerospace
University, Professor)
Keywords: Korean
dialect, language exposure, perceptual accommodation, stops
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