LINGUIST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sailfish, Phoneme, Habituation
5 Apr 2018
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However: if t(cid:449)o pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)es fro(cid:373) se(cid:272)o(cid:374)d la(cid:374)guage (cid:373)ap o(cid:374)to a si(cid:374)gle pho(cid:374)e(cid:373)e (cid:272)ategor(cid:455) of the lear(cid:374)er"s (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e language, this contrast will be hard to learn. Babies learn phonology of their native language very early. When they get broed = stop sucking. Conclusion: if babies suck hard after hearing a new phoneme; they can discriminate phonemes. Babies can pick up on phonemes of all languages. Phonemic sensitivity goes away by 1 year of age. 6 months = 90% successful @ discrimination between hindi, sailfish, english. Introduce new sound = excited and sucking hard again contrast. Babies learn l1 phoneme categories by 12 months. Adult l2 learners perceive l2 phonemes through their experience of l1 matched guise study stimulus: 3 stimulus of the same voice, 2 different faces, 1 without face. Guise: white face = 70% said no accent, asian face = 60% said no accent, no face = 2/3 said no accent. 41% of population is chinese, 31% canadian.
