Learning the Hindi dental-retroflex contrast through sound-to-meaning associations and sound discrimination tasks.

• Main Author: Teo, Gerielle Ern Ai.
• Other Authors: Fabrizio Galli
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Linguistics::Psycholinguistics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52194
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Studies have shown that perceiving contrasts which do not occur in one’s native language is difficult. Native English speakers, for example, have trouble discriminating between Hindi dental and retroflex consonants as both tend to be heard as instances of English alveolar stops. This study investiga...