Perception of Vietnamese back vowels contrasting in rounding by English listeners

Publication date: March 2019Source: Journal of Phonetics, Volume 73Author(s): Irina A. ShportAbstractThe perception of back vowels contrasting in rounding has not previously been examined in major theoretical frameworks of cross-language speech perception. In two experiments, Southern U.S. English speakers naïve to the contrast categorized the Vietnamese vowels [u o ɯ ɤ] in terms of their native vowel categories and identified oddball vowels in triads representing the contrasts [u]-[o], [ɯ]-[u], [ɯ]-[ɤ], and [o]-[ɤ]. The relationship between vowel categorization and discrimination was more accurately predicted when predominant and secondary categorization patterns were taken into account. Group results showed that Vietnamese [ɤ] and [u o] were perceived as being most similar to Eng...

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