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학술연구/단체지원/교육 등 연구자 활동을 지속하도록 DBpia가 지원하고 있어요.
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연구자들이 자신의 연구와 전문성을 널리 알리고, 새로운 협력의 기회를 만들 수 있는 네트워킹 공간이에요.
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The purpose of this study is to scientifically examine Kuhl’s (2011), originally Johnson and Newport’s (1989) critical period graph, from a perspective of auditory perception and linguistic discrimination. This study utilizes two types of experiments (auditory perception and linguistic phoneme discrimination) with five different age groups (5 years, 6-8 years, 9-13 years, 15-17 years, and 20-26 years) of Korean English learners. Auditory perception is examined via ultrasonic sounds that are commonly used in the medical field. In addition, each group is measured in terms of their ability to discriminate minimal pairs in Chinese. Since almost all Korean students already have some amount of English exposure, the researchers selected phonemes in Chinese, an unexposed foreign language for all of the subject groups. The results are almost completely in accordance with Kuhl’s critical period graph for auditory perception and linguistic discrimination; a sensitive age is found at 8. The results show that the auditory capability of kindergarten children is significantly better than that of other students, measured by their ability to perceive ultrasonic sounds and to distinguish ten minimal pairs in Chinese. This finding strongly implies that human auditory ability is a key factor for the sensitive period of language acquisition.
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ABSTRACT
1. Introduction
2. Critical Period and Language Learning
3. Auditory Perception and Linguistic Discrimination
4. Method
5. Findings and Discussion
6. Conclusion
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2. [학술지(정기간행물)] - Asher, J. / 1969 / The optimal age to learn a foreign language / Modern Language Journal 53 : 334 ~ 341
3. [학술지(정기간행물)] - Aslin, R. / 1981 / Discrimination of voice onset time by human infants : New findings and implications for the effect of early experience / Child Development 52 (4) : 1135 ~ 1145
4. [학술지(정기간행물)] - Baker, W. / 2008 / Child-adult differences in second language phonological learning : The role of cross-language similarity / Language and Speech 51 (4) : 317 ~ 342
5. [단행본] - Bialystok, E. / 1999 / Second language acquisition and the critical period hypothesis / Lawrence Erlbaum : 161 ~ 181
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