Journal article
Discrimination of multiple coronal stop contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A natural referent consonant account
RL Bundgaard-Nielsen, BJ Baker, CH Kroos, M Harvey, CT Best
Plos One | Published : 2015
Abstract
Native speech perception is generally assumed to be highly efficient and accurate. Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily. Here, we demonstrate that native speech perception may indeed be more difficult than is often assumed, where phonemes are highly similar, and we address the nature and extremes of consonant perception. We present two studies of native and non-native (English) perception of the acoustically and articulatorily similar four-way coronal stop contrast /tt{right tail}t{combining bridge below}t{curled}/ (apico-alveolar, apico-retrof..
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Funding Acknowledgements
[ "The research was funded by and Early Career Researcher Grant awarded to Brett Baker by the University of Melbourne (ECR grant 601103 Perception of rich consonant contrasts in Wubuy', awarded 21 October 2010). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.", "The authors would like to thank the Wubuy speakers and the Wubuy and Australian English listeners for their participation in this research project. We thank the editor of PLoS, Linda Polka, and an anonymous reviewer for comments which led to significant improvements in this paper. We would also like to thank the audiences at the Australian Languages Workshop 2011, SST 2014, at the Universities of Melbourne and Aarhus ('Biases in Perception' workshop), and at the Australian Linguistics Society Conference 2013, for their comments and insights. This research was funded by a University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher grant to the second author, and approved by the University of Melbourne's Human Research Ethics Committee [1035119]." ]