An experimental study of preschoolers’ English consonant perception (Poster 5)

• In Event: Division D Graduate Student Committee In-Progress Research Gala Poster Session

Abstract

The study aims to explore how non-native children from a multilingual society perform speech perception under High Variability Phonetic Training in Adverse Conditions (HVPT-AC). This study serves to examine the adverse effects (e.g., noise or multi-talker background) and dominant language effects on Malaysian-Chinese children's identification of the English consonant minimal pair nouns /t/-/d/ (e.g., bet – bed), /f/-/v/ (e.g., fan - van) and /r/-/l/ (e.g., war – wall), contrasting at word initial and final positions. Here we show phonetic identification accuracy under quiet and adverse conditions in Malaysian Chinese children who are dominant English and dominant Mandarin speaker.

Author

• Katherine Jiawen Ren, University of North Carolina - Charlotte