Perception of a phoneme contrast in Singaporean English-Mandarin bilingual adults: a preregistered study of individual differences

• Main Authors: Goh, Hannah Letitia, Styles, Suzy J.
• Other Authors: Interdisciplinary Graduate School (IGS)
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics; Perception; Singapore; Mandarin; Phonology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157261; https://escholarship.org/uc/cognitivesciencesociety; https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-2022/
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While the Mandarin alveolar-retroflex phoneme contrast has been extensively studied in Beijing and Taiwan Mandarin, little analysis exists for the Singapore variety of Mandarin. In this study, we explore in detail how English-Mandarin bilinguals resolve ambiguity for words that differ in the voicele...