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April 16, 2026Journal of Japanese Linguistics

Cross-linguistic phonetic interference: The production and perception of L3 Japanese word-initial stops by Mandarin trilinguals

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MZMin Zeng

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Investigates the production and perception of Japanese stops in Mandarin trilinguals, indicating significant phonetic interference.

Key Points

  • The study aims to explore how Mandarin trilinguals acquire Japanese word-initial voiceless stops and the effect of their Japanese input.
  • Participants included Mandarin trilinguals and Japanese bilinguals.
  • A production experiment involved reading Japanese words with target stops.
  • A perception experiment used synthetic stimuli with varying voice onset time (VOT) values.
  • Mandarin trilinguals produced target stops with longer VOT values than Japanese bilinguals.
  • Perceptual category boundaries for trilinguals occurred at longer VOT values compared to bilinguals.
  • Phonetic interference was noted from both Mandarin and English in trilinguals' skills.

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Min Zeng (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69e07cfa2f7e8953b7cbe05ahttps://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2026-2004
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