This article is a correction to:
Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners
Pierre A. Hallé
Rachid Ridouane
Catherine T. Best- 1Laboratoire Phonétique et Phonologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
- 2Laboratoire Mémoire et Cognition, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France
- 3Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA
- 4MARCS Institute and School of Humanities and Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
A Corrigendum on
Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners
by Hallé, P. A., Ridouane, R., and Best, C. (2016). Front. Psychol. 7:209. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00209
One sentence went wrong in the last paragraph of the Introduction section: “The acoustic substance …varied from silence (word-final voiceless stops: e.g., fit-fitt), to low-intensity voicing murmur (word-initial voiced stops: e.g., bi-bbi), with strident frication (word-initial fricatives: e.g., sir-ssir) in between.” The sentence should be: “The acoustic substance …varied from silence (word-final voiceless stops: e.g., fit-fitt), to strident frication (word-initial fricatives: e.g., sir-ssir), with low-intensity voicing murmur (word-initial voiced stops: e.g., bi-bbi), in between.” Indeed, our initial hypothesis is that French listeners' performance on singleton-geminate contrasts follows the critical segments' acoustic intensity. Thus, under this hypothesis, the prediction that “French listeners should encounter the greatest difficulty with voiceless stops (silence) and the least difficulty with voiceless fricatives (strident frication)” only makes sense if the ordering of the three types of segments is explained as corrected. This correction of course does not affect the scientific validity of the results.
Author Contributions
All authors listed, have contributed to this corrigendum and approved it for publication.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
Keywords: non-native speech perception, Tashlhiyt Berber, French, geminate obstruents, timing perception
Citation: Hallé PA, Ridouane R and Best CT (2016) Corrigendum: Differential Difficulties in Perception of Tashlhiyt Berber Consonant Quantity Contrasts by Native Tashlhiyt Listeners vs. Berber-Naïve French Listeners. Front. Psychol. 7:479. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00479
Received: 11 March 2016; Accepted: 18 March 2016;
Published: 30 March 2016.
Edited and reviewed by: Sophie Dufour, Aix-Marseille University, France
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*Correspondence: Pierre A. Hallé, pierre.halle@univ-paris3.fr