TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptual assimilation of French oral vowels in consonantal contexts by naïve Korean listeners
AU - Oh, Eunjin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Eunjin Oh, published by Linguistic Research (KHU ISLI). This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This study investigates perceptual assimilation of French vowels by native Korean listeners without knowledge of French to estimate perceptual similarity between vowels of the two languages (Best 1995). French vowels /i, e, ɛ, a, y, ø, oe, u, o, ɔ/ in non-coronal and coronal contexts were perceptually assimilated to Korean vowels /i, e, ɯ, ʌ, ɑ, u, o/. As a measure of perceptual similarity, fit indices were calculated by weighting a response percentage of the most frequently assimilated Korean vowel with its mean goodness-rating score (Sun and van Heuven 2007). French high front rounded /y/ was assimilated to Korean high back rounded /u/, suggesting that acoustic features reflecting lip rounding affect the identification of the front rounded vowel. French vowels were assimilated to the same Korean vowels in the two consonantal contexts except /ø/ and /oe/. It was not always the case that the assimilation patterns were explained in terms of acoustic distances between the vowels of French and Korean. The patterns where two French vowels were assimilated to a single Korean vowel showed one category-goodness (CG) type (/i/-/e/ to /i/) and two uncategorized-categorized (UC) types (/oe/-/ɔ/ to /ʌ/; /y/-/u/ to /u/) in the non-coronal contexts, and two CG types (/ɛ/-/oe/ to /e/; /u/-/y/ to /u/), one single-category type (/y/-/ø/ to /u/), and one UC type (/e/-/i/ to /i/) in the coronal contexts.
AB - This study investigates perceptual assimilation of French vowels by native Korean listeners without knowledge of French to estimate perceptual similarity between vowels of the two languages (Best 1995). French vowels /i, e, ɛ, a, y, ø, oe, u, o, ɔ/ in non-coronal and coronal contexts were perceptually assimilated to Korean vowels /i, e, ɯ, ʌ, ɑ, u, o/. As a measure of perceptual similarity, fit indices were calculated by weighting a response percentage of the most frequently assimilated Korean vowel with its mean goodness-rating score (Sun and van Heuven 2007). French high front rounded /y/ was assimilated to Korean high back rounded /u/, suggesting that acoustic features reflecting lip rounding affect the identification of the front rounded vowel. French vowels were assimilated to the same Korean vowels in the two consonantal contexts except /ø/ and /oe/. It was not always the case that the assimilation patterns were explained in terms of acoustic distances between the vowels of French and Korean. The patterns where two French vowels were assimilated to a single Korean vowel showed one category-goodness (CG) type (/i/-/e/ to /i/) and two uncategorized-categorized (UC) types (/oe/-/ɔ/ to /ʌ/; /y/-/u/ to /u/) in the non-coronal contexts, and two CG types (/ɛ/-/oe/ to /e/; /u/-/y/ to /u/), one single-category type (/y/-/ø/ to /u/), and one UC type (/e/-/i/ to /i/) in the coronal contexts.
KW - assimilation set
KW - fit index
KW - French vowels
KW - goodness rating
KW - Korean vowels
KW - perceptual assimilation
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U2 - 10.17250/khisli.40.1.202303.004
DO - 10.17250/khisli.40.1.202303.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158950534
SN - 1229-1374
VL - 40
SP - 93
EP - 118
JO - Linguistic Research
JF - Linguistic Research
IS - 1
ER -