AUDITORY PERCEPTION OF SERBIAN AND ENGLISH VOICELESS STOPS BY SERBIAN SPEAKERS AND INTERFERENCE
AUDITORY PERCEPTION OF SERBIAN AND ENGLISH VOICELESS STOPS BY SERBIAN SPEAKERS AND INTERFERENCE

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is twofold: firstly, to examine the relevance of CV formant transitions and bursts in the auditory perception of Serbian word-initial /p t k/ and English [ph th kh] by the speakers of Serbian; and secondly, to explore the relatioThe aim of the paper is twofold: firstly, to examine the relevance of CVformant transitions and bursts in the auditory perception of Serbian word-initial /p t k/ and English[ph th kh] by the speakers of Serbian; and secondly, to explore the relatioThe aim of the paper is twofold: firstly, to examine the relevance of CV formant transitions and bursts in the auditory perception of Serbian word-initial /p t k/ and English [ph th kh] by the speakers of Serbian; and secondly, to explore the relation between native language experience of listeners and their perceptual abilities in other languages. The subjects were ten native speakers of Serbian (five males and five females) and the corpus consisted of Serbian-English pairs of words, illustrating the aforementioned sets of stops before Serbian /í/ (long-rising accent) vs. English /i:/ and Serbian /ȍ/ (short-falling accent) vs. English /ɒ/. Despite the differences in the perceptual salience of the transitions and bursts between the languages in question, the results ofthe research point to the strong tendency of Serbian speakers to rely on the acoustic cues relevantin Serbian (L1) in the auditory perception of English (L2) voiceless stops.

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