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Jones, Caroline; Meakins, Felicity; Muawiyath, Shujau – Language Learning, 2012
Distributional learning is a proposal for how infants might learn early speech sound categories from acoustic input before they know many words. When categories in the input differ greatly in relative frequency and overlap in acoustic space, research in bilingual development suggests that this affects the course of development. In the present…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Foreign Countries, Vowels, Bilingualism
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Davis, John McE. – Language Learning, 2007
The study examines how learner biases toward a particular national type of English affect interlanguage pragmatics. Specifically, this study assesses the degree to which Korean ESL (English as a second language) students' preferences for North American English influence their willingness to use Australian-English routines while studying in…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, North American English, Pragmatics