Phonetic similarity predicts ultimate attainment quite well: The case of Danish /i, y, u/ and /d, t/ for native speakers of English and Spanish
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This study examined how well phonetic similarity predicted ultimate attainment in the production of Danish /i, y, u/ and /d, t/ by highly experienced native speakers of English and of Spanish. Experiment 1 compared the VOT of /d, t/ and the F2 of /i, y, u/ as produced by native speakers of the three languages. Experiment 2 examined the perceptual assimilation of Danish [i, y, u] to native /i, u/ by native English and native Spanish listeners. Experiment 3 indicated that native English speakers used their native (non-Danish) /t/ and /u/ in Danish, and did not produce Danish /y/ correctly. Native Spanish speakers produced Danish /y/ correctly, and they produced /t/ and many /d/ tokens differently in Spanish and in Danish. These results are interpreted in terms of current speech learning models which claim that phonetic similarity predicts speech learning success at ultimate attainment.
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