Collaborative Research: A longitudinal approach to examining perception-production links in second language speech sound learning.

协作研究：检查第二语言语音学习中感知-产生联系的纵向方法。

基本信息

批准号：
2309561
负责人：
Charlie Nagle
金额：
$ 24.91万
依托单位：
University of Texas at Austin
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-01-15 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2309561&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Collaborative Research longitudinal approach examining

项目摘要

One of the main challenges of learning another language is learning how to pronounce the constituent sounds. For adult learners, the native language acts like a filter, which may prevent them from perceiving the sounds of the new language correctly. If they don’t perceive those sounds correctly, they may not produce them correctly. These pronunciation problems can affect learners’ ability to understand the new language and their ability to communicate in it. For example, when they listen to the new language, they may struggle to distinguish similar words and when they speak it, they may produce words that listeners don’t understand. Researchers know that perceiving sounds accurately is a prerequisite for producing them accurately, but little is known about how sound perception and sound production develop and influence one another. Understanding how these skills develop and interact is a necessary first step toward developing better models of pronunciation learning and better training procedures that can help students learn new languages more quickly and effectively. In this project, the investigators examine how the relationship between the ability to differentiate and produce sounds in a new language develops over time. This will be accomplished by training participants on sound perception, sound production, or both. Performance in both skills will be measured at multiple time points throughout training to investigate how performance in each area changes over time and how the relationship between them evolves. Participants’ ability to apply the knowledge they learned to new words and to words spoken in a new voice will also be tested, as a means of investigating how different types of training help second language learners deal with variability in speech. The results will lay the foundation for developing a more comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Additionally, findings will provide insight into how pronunciation instruction can be optimized to help learners perceive and produce the sounds and words of other languages accurately, forming the basis for effective second language communication.This project is jointly funded by the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

学习另一种语言的主要挑战之一是学习如何发音，对于成人学习者来说，母语就像一个过滤器，如果他们不理解，可能会阻止他们正确地感知新语言的声音。这些发音问题可能会影响学习者理解新语言的能力以及用新语言进行交流的能力，例如，当他们听新语言时，他们可能很难区分相似的单词。当他们说出来时，他们可能会产生单词研究人员知道，准确地感知声音是准确产生声音的先决条件，但对于声音感知和声音产生如何相互发展和影响却知之甚少，了解这些技能如何发展和相互作用是必要的第一步。致力于开发更好的发音学习模型和更好的训练程序，帮助学生更快、更有效地学习新语言。在这个项目中，研究人员研究了新语言的区分能力和发音之间的关系如何随着时间的推移而发展。这将通过培训来完成声音感知、声音产生或两者的表现将在整个培训过程中的多个时间点进行测量，以调查每个领域的表现如何随时间变化以及参与者应用所学知识的能力如何发展。新单词和以新声音说出的单词也将被测试，作为研究不同类型的训练如何帮助第二语言学习者处理语音变化的一种手段。结果将为开发更全面的第二语言模型奠定基础。此外，研究结果还将深入了解发音教学如何发挥作用。进行优化，帮助学习者准确地感知和发出其他语言的声音和单词，形成有效的第二语言交流的基础。该项目由感知、行动和认知计划和刺激竞争研究既定计划联合资助(EPSCoR)。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。