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香港中文大学研究人员 ( 现职)
| 黄俊文教授 (语言学及现代语言系) |
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| 数位物件识别号 (DOI) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728914000777 |
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摘要Numerous factors are thought to be advantageous for non-native language learning although they are typically investigated in isolation, and the interaction between them is not understood. Firstly, bilinguals are claimed to acquire a third language easier than monolinguals acquire a second. Secondly, closely related languages may be easier to learn. Thirdly, certain phonetic features could be universally more difficult to acquire. We tested these hypotheses used as explanations by having adults learn vocabularies that differentiated words using foreign phonetic contrasts. In Experiment 1, Mandarin-English bilinguals outlearned English monolinguals, and the Mandarin-like (retroflex) artificial language was better learned than the English-like (fricative voicing). In Experiment 2, bilinguals again outlearned English monolinguals for the Mandarin-like artificial language. However, only Korean-English bilinguals showed an advantage for the more difficult Korean-like (lenition) language. Bilinguals, relative to monolinguals, show a general advantage when learning 'easy' contrasts, but phonetic similarity to the native language is useful for learning universally 'difficult' contrasts.
着者Antoniou M, Liang E, Ettlinger M, Wong PCM
期刊名称BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
出版年份201http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/5
月份10
日期1
卷号18
期次4
出版社CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
页次683 - 69http://aims.cuhk.edu.hk/converis/portal/Publication/5
国际标準期刊号1366-7289
电子国际标準期刊号1469-1841
语言英式英语
关键词bilingualism; cognitive advantage; language universals; language-specific experience; phonetic learning
Web of Science 学科类别Linguistics; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental
