Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener's native phonological system.

By Catherine T. Best, G. McRoberts, E. Goodell. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2001

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Signal Processing

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Assessing constraints on second-language segmental production and perception (2003, methodology): “According to the Perceptual Assimilation Model, or PAM (e.g., Best 1995; Best et al. 2001), the accuracy with which L2 speech sounds are discriminated depends on how, or if, they are perceptually “assimilated” by L1 speech sounds.”
Development of the ability to lexically encode novel second language phonemic contrasts (2008, background): “…depends on how each of the sounds is mapped by the listener to corresponding native language categories (Bohn and Flege, 1992; Major and Kim, 1999; Best et al., 2001), and this is formalized in models of second- and cross-language speech; e.g. the Perceptual Assimilation Model (Best, 1995); the…”
Perceived phonetic dissimilarity and L2 speech learning: the case of Japanese /r/ and English /l/ and /r/ (2004, background): “Previous research has shown that the perceived phonetic relationship between sounds in L2 learners’ first language (L1) and sounds in an L2 is closely related to how well the learner discriminates a particular pair of L2 contrastive phonetic segments (or ‘‘sounds’’ for short) (Best & Strange, 1992; ”
Lexical and statistical evidence in the acquisition of second language phonemes (2007, background): “…contributing factors, including age of the learner and amount of second language input, are addressed in this literature on second language speech perception (e.g. Pisoni et al., 1982; Werker and Tees, 1984; Werker and Logan, 1985; Polka, 1992; Best et al., 2001; Flege, 1993; Flege et al., 1995).”
Does a rater’s familiarity with a candidate’s pronunciation affect the rating in oral proficiency interviews? (2011, background): “A competing theory which also explains how L2 perception develops is Best’s (1995; Best et al., 2001) Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM).”
Connectionist Models in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience : Critical Periods and the Paradox of Success (2005, background): “The obvious extreme cases are ones in which novel phonological contrasts in L2 are not perceived because they are assimilated to existing categories in L1 (e.g., Best et al., 2001).”
Five-month-old infants' identification of the sources of vocalizations (2009, background): “It remains to be explored whether infants would match speech sounds also used in nonspeech contexts, such as fricatives or clicks (50).”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “By adulthood, this universal phonetic capacity is no longer in place and non-native phonetic discrimination is much more difficult (Miyawaki et al. 1975; Werker & Lalonde 1988; Best et al. 2001; Iverson et al. 2003).”
Learning pitch patterns in lexical identification by native English-speaking adults (2007, background): “Various models have been postulated to account for the different patterns of results in adult foreign speech perception, including Best’s perceptual assimilation model (e.g., Best, McRoberts, & Goodell, 2001 ), Flege’s speech-learning model (Flege, 1995), and Kuhl’s native language magnet model (Ku”
Non-native speech perception in adverse conditions: A review (2010, methodology): “PAM predicts degrees of difficulty for the acquisition of NN sounds in pairs, depending on the similarity of each member of the pair to L1 sounds.”