The Effects High-Variability Phonetic Training on Cantonese ESL Learners’ Production of English Vowel Contrasts - An Acoustic Analysis

Janice Wing Sze Wong

The Effects High-Variability Phonetic Training on Cantonese ESL Learners’ Production of English Vowel Contrasts - An Acoustic Analysis

Janice Wing Sze Wong

Department of Communication Studies

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This study investigated the effects of High Variability Phonetic Training (HVPT), a perception-only training, on Cantonese ESL learners’ production of English /ɪ/-/iː/ contrast in terms of the first and second formant frequencies as well as the vowel duration. A total of 17 subjects participated in this study and they were all trained over 20 sessions of the HVPT. The results showed that after training, the male learners could improve their production of the two vowels in terms of F1, F2 and vowel duration; the female subjects only improved in terms of F1 and vowel duration. This suggested that perceptual learning can be transferred to the production domain and the subjects could generally improve their productions in terms of both vowel height and vowel length. More individual variations were observed in the change of vowel frontness/backness. This study showed that after training, the awareness of the differences, particularly for the length, between the target vowel contrasts was raised.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2015 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, PTLC2015
Publisher	Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference
Pages	107-111
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9780992639419
Publication status	Published - Aug 2015
Event	The Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, PTLC2015 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Aug 2015 → 7 Aug 2015 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/proceedings-2015 (Conference proceedings)

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Conference	The Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, PTLC2015
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Period	5/08/15 → 7/08/15
Internet address	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/proceedings-2015 (Conference proceedings)

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Wong, JWS 2015, The Effects High-Variability Phonetic Training on Cantonese ESL Learners’ Production of English Vowel Contrasts - An Acoustic Analysis. in Proceedings of 2015 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, PTLC2015. Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, pp. 107-111, The Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, PTLC2015, United Kingdom, 5/08/15.

The Effects High-Variability Phonetic Training on Cantonese ESL Learners’ Production of English Vowel Contrasts - An Acoustic Analysis. / Wong, Janice Wing Sze.
Proceedings of 2015 Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, PTLC2015. Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 2015. p. 107-111.

Research output: Chapter in book/report/conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review

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