TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hazan, Valerie
A1  - Sennema, Anke
A1  - Faulkner, Andrew
A1  - Ortega-Llebaria, Marta
A1  - Iba, Midori
A1  - Chung, Hyunsong
T1  - The use of visual cues in the perception of non-native consonant contrasts
N2  - This study assessed the extent to which second-language learners are sensitive to phonetic information contained in visual cues when identifying a non-native phonemic contrast. In experiment 1, Spanish and Japanese learners of English were tested on their perception of a labial/labiodental consonant contrast in audio (A), visual (V), and audio-visual (AV) modalities. Spanish students showed better performance overall, and much greater sensitivity to visual cues than Japanese students. Both learner groups achieved higher scores in the A V than in the A test condition, thus showing evidence of audio-visual benefit. Experiment 2 examined the perception of the less visually-salient /1/-/r/ contrast in Japanese and Korean learners of English. Korean learners obtained much higher scores in auditory and audio- visual conditions than in the visual condition, while Japanese learners generally performed poorly in both modalities. Neither. group showed evidence of audio-visual benefit. These results show the impact of the language background of the learner and visual salience of the contrast on the use of visual cues for a non-native contrast. Significant correlations between scores in the auditory and visual conditions suggest that increasing auditory proficiency in identifying a non-native contrast is linked with an increasing proficiency in using visual cues to the contrast.
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://scitation.aip.org/jasa/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2166611
SN  - 0001-4966
ER  -