The present study examined the effects of word familiarity and task condition on the phonetic convergence of standard Korean speakers to North Korean dialects. Using a word shadowing task, standard Seoul speakers imitated the North and South Korean words produced by a North Korean model talker. Half of the speakers were directed to listen carefully and repeat the target words to elicit implicit imitation, whereas the other half were asked to explicitly imitate the model talker. Overall, Seoul standard speakers showed a weak but consistent phonetic convergence to the North Korean dialect spoken by the model talker, although North and South Korea are in a tense political relationship. More importantly, Korean speakers showed more imitation in the explicit than the implicit condition, whereas word familiarity was not a significant factor. Additionally, phonetic convergence was modulated by a linguistic factor, demonstrating less convergence in the vowels /o/ and /ʌ/, which may harm the phonological contrast.
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