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An Investigation of Phonological Interference

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Eugène J. Brière
Eugène J. Brière*
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University of California, Los Angeles
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1. The ease or difficulty of learning phonological categories, experienced by a speaker of language X attempting to learn language Y, has been attributed by linguists to (1) the competing phonemic categories of native language (N) and target language (T) systems, (2) the allophonic membership of these phonemic categories, and (3) the distributions of these categories within their respective systems. It has been noted that the higher the degree of similarity between the N and T phonological categories, the easier it is for the speaker to learn the T phonological categories, and the converse has been held to be true.

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Language , Volume 42 , Issue 4-Part1 , December 1966, pp. 768 - 796
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Copyright © 1966 by Linguistic Society of America

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This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics, UCLA, directed by Jaan Puhvel, and in part by the Human Communication Laboratory, Department of Psychology, UCLA, directed by Edward C. Carterette. Special thanks are extended to Peter Ladefoged and Laurence Thompson for constant encouragement throughout the project. A more detailed treatment of this problem can be found in my forthcoming monograph, A psycholinguistic study of phonological interference (The Hague, Mouton).

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