L1 PHONOTACTIC CONSTRAINTS MEDIATE PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS OF NON-NATIVE GEMINATION
Résumé
Previous studies have revealed that L2 learners whose L1 has contrastive gemination may produce long consonants in an L2 which does not have gemination, due to orthography (e.g., in words with double consonants, such as 'Finnish' vs 'finish'). For the same reason, learners may reject rhymes such as 'very' and 'cherry'. In this study, we confirm that gemination affects the phonological awareness of L1 Italian learners of L2 French, but we find that it is mediated by L1 phonotactics. 24 Italian learners of French and 24 French control speakers participated in a discrimination test where the duration of target consonants was manipulated. Italian learners tended to rate stimuli with a lengthened consonant as different (non-)words, but only in contexts where gemination is licit in Italian. Vice versa, in contexts where gemination is illicit, responses by Italian learners do not differ from those of control French native speakers.
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