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The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English.

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Title/Author:	The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English./
Author:	Rothgerber, John Robert.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	198 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-01A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28001980
ISBN:	9798662384460

The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English.
Rothgerber, John Robert.

The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 198 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Previous studies on segmental contrasts have suggested that learners may store the sounds of second language (L2) words in their mental lexicons in a way that is influenced by the first language (L1) phonological system. However, it remains unclear what influence L1 phonotactic constraints have on L2 lexical representations. Phonotactic constraints are language-specific constraints on how sounds can be arranged and sequenced. In Japanese, for example, two consonants cannot occur together in the syllable onset. Therefore, the English word group is adapted into Japanese as [ɡuɾuːpu], with an epenthetic vowel inserted into the consonant cluster. Research has shown that L1 Japanese learners tend to perceive an epenthetic vowel [u] in English consonant clusters, despite no vowel being present. It is therefore possible that they also encode this epenthetic vowel in the mental lexicon.The current study addressed this possibility by using a lexical decision task with Japanese learners of English. Nonword stimuli were created by inserting epenthetic vowels into real English words (e.g., [ɡuɹuːp] from group [ɡɹuːp]). Words were varied according to their loanword status in Japanese and to the cluster-initial consonant. The results showed that learners tended to accept such nonwords as real words, and intermediate learners showed higher rates of acceptance than advanced learners. No effects were found for loanword status or consonant type. The results of the lexical decision task correlated strongly with the results of an oddity discrimination task, which is a measure of perception.These findings provide evidence that learners lexically encode epenthetic vowels. This, in turn, suggests that L1 phonotactic constraints influence L2 lexical representations. As learners advance in proficiency, they tend to become more accurate in both perception and lexical representation, although further research is needed to tease apart the relationship between the two.

ISBN: 9798662384460Subjects--Topical Terms:

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The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English.
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