A Cross-Linguistic Study of L3 Phonological Acquisition of Stop Contrasts

The research reported in this article investigated how students learning Japanese or Russian as a third language (L3) perceived and produced word-initial stops their respective target the link between perception production. participants study were 39 Chinese university who spoke Mandarin first (L1), English second (L2), L3. An L3 identification task, an reading L2 task used to investigate learners’ production of stops. results demonstrated that phonetic similarity different stop categories L1, L2, contributed confusion perception. On contrary, learners could perceive new acoustic feature voicing lead, but found it difficult produce voiced In addition, positive relationship voiceless initial stage acquisition, there was no correlation Pedagogical implications for speech are discussed on basis results.