Perception of voicing in English word-final consonants: examining the perceptual assimilation model

• Main Author: Pilus, Zahariah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian English Language Association (MELTA) 2005
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics; PE English
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/2561/1/zahariah.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/2561/; http://www.melta.org.my/Doc/The_Perceptual_Assimilation_Model1.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

This paper presents the findings of a perception experiment that was conducted to examine the relative difficulty encountered by Malay speakers of English in contrasting voicing in word-final obstruents. The pairs of obstruents examined in the paper were /t/-/d/, /s/-/z/ and /f/-/v/. Results from t...