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A study on the phonetic/phonological differences of Korean, English and Japanese from the SLM & PAM perspectives

See-Gyoon Park 1

1군산대학교

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ABSTRACT

L1 transfer has been a main theme in the area of L2 sound acquisition. Since Lado(1957) advocated the Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis(CAH)where ‘L1 transfer’ was a main factor, L1 transfer has been a main factorin the following L2 sound acquisition models. Two models have beenfavorite and influential to the scholars in this area. One was SpeechLearning Model(SLM) asserted by Flege(1987a, 1987b). The other wasPerceptual Assimilation Model(PAM) claimed by Best(1993, 1995). Bothmodels put the emphasis on ‘L1 transfer’ and ‘L2 experiences’ as mainfactors of L2 sound acquisition. In this paper, I verified these two models with my own experiments forfour different cases in association with L1 transfer and L2 experiences. Outof four cases two were explained by the two models’ predictions but theother two were not successful with their predictions. The third factors,whether those are ‘positive’ or ‘negative’, were needed to solve theproblems of the two models’ insufficient predictions. Also the third factorswere directly related to the ‘markedness’. If the factors are ‘positive’ thoseare related to ‘unmarked’ direction of the targeted L2 sounds and if ‘negative’, those are related to ‘marked’ direction of them. Although ‘L1transfer’ and ‘L2 experiences’ are important factors in L2 sound acquisition,the third factors are equally important to the other factors. The detailedrelationship amongst theses three factors should be resolved in futureresearches.

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