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Toya, Teruki; Birkholz, Peter; Unoki, Masashi – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Psychoacoustical studies on transmission characteristics related to bone-conducted (BC) speech, perceived by speakers during vocalization, are important for further understanding the relationship between speech production and perception, especially auditory feedback. For exploring how the outer ear part contributes to BC speech…
Descriptors: Human Body, Speech Communication, Acoustics, Correlation
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dos Santos, Regina Antunes Teixeira; dos Santos, Rafael Puchalski – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2021
Addressing the disparate levels of aural skills that students may have acquired through their daily musical experiences prior to formal schooling can be difficult. Placement tests within the Western classical musical tradition typically involve structural decoding and formal concepts of elementary music theory. In this manuscript, we discuss the…
Descriptors: Music Theory, Music Education, Outreach Programs, Student Placement
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Kitikanan, Patchanok – English Language Teaching, 2022
This article reports on the second language (L2) perception of contrasts among British English monophthongs. This study has two aims: 1) to explore the discriminability of contrasts in L2 British English monophthongs; and 2) to test the perceptual assimilation model-L2 (PAM-L2) towards the ability to discriminate British English contrasts. The…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Vowels, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Yang, Yuxiao; Chen, Xiaoxiang; Xiao, Qi – Second Language Research, 2022
This study investigated the role of cross-linguistic similarity in the acquisition of Russian initial stop contrasts by Chinese learners, addressing two specific research questions: (1) How similar are Russian voiced stops to Mandarin stops for Chinese learners?; and (2) How can the speech learning model (SLM) be applied to account for the…
Descriptors: Russian, Contrastive Linguistics, Phonemes, Mandarin Chinese
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Al Mahmoud, Mahmoud S. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This article reports on second language perception of non-native contrasts. The study specifically tests the perceptual assimilation model (PAM) by examining American learners' ability to discriminate Arabic contrasts. Twenty two native American speakers enrolled in a university level Arabic language program took part in a forced choice AXB…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Auditory Discrimination, North Americans, Second Language Learning
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Kissling, Elizabeth M. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2014
This study investigated second language (L2) learners' perception of L2 sounds as an individual difference that predicted their improvement in pronunciation after receiving instruction. Learners were given explicit pronunciation instruction in a series of modules added to their Spanish as a foreign language curriculum and were then tested on their…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Pronunciation Instruction, Spanish, Second Language Learning
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Porretta, Vincent J.; Tucker, Benjamin V. – Second Language Research, 2015
The present investigation examines English speakers' ability to identify and discriminate non-native consonant length contrast. Three groups (L1 English No-Instruction, L1 English Instruction, and L1 Finnish control) performed a speeded forced-choice identification task and a speeded AX discrimination task on Finnish non-words (e.g.…
Descriptors: Role, Attention, Phonetics, Language Processing