Perception of Italian and Japanese Consonant Length by Native Speakers of Australian English and Italian: A Pilot Study
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We examined the perception of Italian (IT) and Japanese (JP) consonant length contrasts (singleton vs geminate) in two groups of listeners: native speakers of IT and Australian English (OZ). Our preliminary results suggest that the IT listeners’ experience with singleton/geminate contrasts was more beneficial than the OZ listeners’ experience with vowel length contrasts in processing JP singleton and geminate consonants. Contrary to the previous literature, the OZ listeners identified stop length contrasts less accurately than fricative and affricate contrasts in both IT and JP. The IT listeners showed a manner effect only for JP with affricate length contrast being misperceived most.
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