THE USE OF PROSODIC CUES IN LEARNING NEW WORDS IN AN UNFAMILIAR LANGUAGE文档.pdf

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012, 34, 415–444. doi:10.1017/S0272263112000137 THE USE OF PROSODIC CUES IN LEARNING NEW WORDS IN AN UNFAMILIAR LANGUAGE Sahyang Kim Hongik University, Seoul, Korea Mirjam Broersma Donders Centre for Cognition, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Taehong Cho Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea The artifi cial language learning paradigm was used to investigate to what extent the use of prosodic features is universally applicable or specifi cally language driven in learning an unfamiliar language, and how nonnative prosodic patterns can be learned. Listeners of unrelated languages—Dutch (n = 100) and Korean (n = 100)—participated. The words to be learned varied with prosodic cues: no prosody, fundamental frequency (F0) rise in initial and fi nal position, fi nal lengthening, and fi nal lengthening plus F0 rise. Both listener groups performed well above chance level with the fi nal lengthening cue, confi rming its crosslinguistic use. As for fi nal F0 rise, however, Dutch We thank the audience at the meeting of the comprehension group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, especially Anne Cutler and James McQueen, for their valu- able comments. We also thank the research assistants for help running the experiment, and all Dutch and Korean participants at Radboud University Nijmegen and Hanyang University in Seoul. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean government (NRF-2009-332-A00076), given to the fi rst author, and a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientifi c Research (NWO) given to the second author. Address correspondence to: Taehong Cho, Hanyang Phonetics and Psycholinguistics Lab, Dep