Perception of Arabic liquids by Japanese listeners
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The present research aims to identify Japanese listeners’ perception patterns of non-native liquid contrasts. The study examines Japanese listeners’ perception of Arabic liquids (/l/, /r/, /ll/ and /rr/). Japanese listeners showed poor performance on the Arabic /l/-/r/ discrimination and very good performance on the discrimination of the other liquid contrasts (/l/-ll/, /ll/-/rr/, /l/-/rr/, /r/-/rr/ and /r/-/ll). The listeners assimilated Arabic /l/ and /r/ to Japanese /r/, Arabic /ll/ to Japanese /Qr/, and Arabic /rr/ to Japanese /rur/. Of the four liquids, Arabic /l/ and /r/ were equally rated as closest to Japanese /r/, while Arabic /rr/ was rated as the least Japanese-like. The Arabic /ll/ stimuli were rated as intermediately close sounds between the singletons and /rr/.
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