The New York Times Old Brains Can Learn New Language Tricks
昨日の続きです。
Dr.McClelland at the Pittsbugh centerの日本人を使った実験
①34 native Japanese speakers came to the Pittsburgh laboratory,where they were given headphones
through which they HEARD pair of words--road and load,light and right under one of two conditions.
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②Those who HEARD natural speech BARELY IMPROVED and some actually got WORSE.
③But those who HEARD exaggerated speech with gradual training toward more natural speech all
improved greatly.After one hour,they could clearly distinguish light and right.
④At this point,the successful subjects DO NOT generalize what they have learned to all L and R this point,the successful subjects DO NOT generalize what they have learned to all L and R sounds.
問題点
①特殊な条件下でのみトレーニングすることによって聞き分けられるようになるようです。（リスニング）ご希望の人はピッツバーグに行って実験されてもらいましょう。
②発音については全く実験されていない。よってattain(達成）できない。それでは敏感期以降発音を学ばなければいけない人はどうすれば良いのでしょうか。
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