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Maya L. Barzilai – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation examines the relative effects of phonetic salience and phonological prominence on speech sound processing. Three test cases, respectively, investigate the processing of consonants versus vowels by speakers of German, Hebrew, and Amharic; the processing of aspirated versus unaspirated stops by speaker of Spanish and Thai; and the…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonology, Language Processing, Speech Communication
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Schmid, Monika S.; Fagersten, Kristy Beers – Language Learning, 2010
Based on an analysis of the speech of long-term emigres of German and Dutch origin, the present investigation discusses to what extent hesitation patterns in language attrition may be the result of the creation of an interlanguage system, on the one hand, or of language-internal attrition patterns on the other. We compare speech samples elicited…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Skill Attrition, Language Patterns, Investigations