A perceptual interference account of acquisition difficulties for non-native phonemes.

By Paul Iverson, Patricia K. Kuhl, Reiko Akahane-Yamada, Eugen Diesch, Yoh'ichi Tohkura, Andreas Kettermann, Claudia Siebert. Cognition, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Selective Attention and Transfer Phenomena in L2 Acquisition: Contingency, Cue Competition, Salience, Interference, Overshadowing, Blocking, and Perceptual Learning (2006, background): “Iverson et al. (2003) present a detailed analysis of how early language experience alters relatively low-level perceptual processing, and how these changes interfere with the formation and adaptability of higher-level linguistic representations, presenting evidence concerning the perception of…”
Infants show a facilitation effect for native language phonetic perception between 6 and 12 months. (2006, methodology): “Complete stimulus specifications are described elsewhere (Iverson et al., 2003).”
Where Do Illusory Vowels Come from (2011, positive): “According to the second one, phonetic dimensions that are not used contrastively are processed less efficiently (Iverson et al., 2003; Dupoux, Sebastián-Gallés, Navarete, & Peperkamp, 2008).”
Unfamiliar orthographic information and second language word learning: A novel lexicon study (2013, background): “native speakers of Japanese typically exhibit difficulty distinguishing English words like read and lead due to difficulty with the English /r/–/l/ contrast (Cutler et al., 2006; Iverson et al., 2003; MacKain et al., 1981; Ota et al., 2009; Ueda et al., 2007).”
Early Speech Perception and Later Language Development: Implications for the "Critical Period" (2005, background): “, 2003) studies suggest that to achieve these different perceptual sorting schemes, listeners attend to different acoustic aspects of the same stimuli; Japanese adults attend to variations in the second formant, whereas American adults attend to variations in the third formant (Iverson et al., 2003)”
Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code (2004, background): “In both cases, native-language strategies can interfere with information processing in a foreign languag”
Evaluating the effects of chronological age and sentence duration on degree of perceived foreign accent (2006, background): “A third account is provided by the Speech Learning Model, or SLM (Flege, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2003) and other theoretical approaches that specify a negative impact of L1 category development on L2 phonetic learning (e.g., McCandliss et al., 2002; Iverson et al., 2003).”
Giftedness and evidence for reproducibly superior performance: an account based on the expert performance framework (2007, background): “In some cases the difficulties are particularly salient, such as native Japanese being unable to perceive the difference between the English phonemes ‘l’ and ‘r’ (Miyawaki et al., 1975; Iverson et al., 2003).”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “Experience is described as 'warping' perception, producing a distortion that decreases perceptual sensitivity near category modes and increases perceptual sensitivity near the boundaries between categories (Kuhl 1991a; Kuhl et al. 1992; Iverson et al. 2003).”
Effects of Form-Focused Instruction and Corrective Feedback on L2 Pronunciation Development of /ɹ/ by Japanese Learners of English (2012, methodology): “Other Phonetic Cues The findings about F3 as a primary phonetic cue for the English /®/ and /l/ contrast in the current study support previous research findings in experimental phonetics and L2 phonology studies (Espy-Wilson, 1992; Flege, Takagi, & Mann, 1995; Hattori & Iverson, 2009; Iverson et al.”
Nonnative and second-language speech perception : commonalities and complementarities (2007, background): “Native and SLA listeners often differ as to which stimulus dimensions most strongly influence their perceptual differentiation of the L2's vowels (Bohn & Flege, 1990; Fox, Flege, & Munro, 1995) and consonants (Iverson, 2005; Iverson et al., 2003).”
Auditory training for experienced and inexperienced second-language learners: Native French speakers learning English vowels (2011, background): “…the category discrimination task taps into relatively low levels of phonetic processing that change little due to experience during adulthood (e.g., Iverson et al., 2003; Iverson, Ekanayake, Hamann, Sennema, & Evans, 2008), rather than tapping into higher levels of phonological encoding that are…”
Is speech learning 'gated' by the social brain? (2007, neutral): “, 1995) and Japanese (Iverson et al., 2003; Lotto et al., 2004).”
Lexical and statistical evidence in the acquisition of second language phonemes (2007, background): “A large literature addresses the issue of which non-native contrasts are most difficult for second language learners to master, and suggests that several factors contribute to the relative discriminability of non-native contrasts (e.g. Polka, 1992; Bohn, 1995; Iverson et al., 2003).”