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Doa’a Faiz Al-Momani; Fatima Z. Al-Qudah; Sa’ida Sayyed – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
Optimality theory (OT) is the latest model of phonology which views the language acquisition process as a way of reordering universal constraints provided by Universal Grammar (UG) according to the language-specific grammar. It, therefore, presents a more promising model towards language universalities. This study aims to utilize the OT framework…
Descriptors: Language Universals, Phonology, Linguistic Theory, Standard Spoken Usage
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Adriano Delego – English Teaching Forum, 2025
When it comes to learning an additional language, it is important that teachers prepare students to communicate with different speakers, respecting and understanding the different English-accented speeches around the world. This article helps English teachers from different parts of the world embrace language variation in their lessons,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phonetics, Phonology, English Instruction
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Schmidt, Lauren B. – Hispania, 2022
The objective of the current study is to investigate the development of awareness of dialectal differences in Spanish by second language learners in a formal language learning classroom setting in the United States. Sensitivity toward different regional varieties of a language forms part of socio-linguistic--and ultimately,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Dialects, Pronunciation
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Díaz-Campos, Manuel; Cole, Molly; Pollock, Matthew – Hispania, 2023
This sociophonetic study examines affricate variation through a continuous lens using diachronic data from Caracas Spanish. We investigate the relationship between frication and occlusion period duration in affricate segments across two steps. First, we present a phonetic characterization of the dependent variable and its variants. Second, we…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Variation, Pronunciation, Vowels
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J. A. Rice; Trini Stickle – Across the Disciplines, 2024
Comparing legal, policy, and statute writing--from stone records of ancient Britain civil servants to opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court--this article demonstrates how weaving threads of textual language variation and change can innervate writing in the disciplines and history of the English language courses, particularly courses designated for…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Across the Curriculum, Legal Problems, Jargon
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Kaltenegger, Sandra – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
Chinese is a highly complex language with internal variation unprecedented in most other languages. Yet, that does not mean Chinese is unique in the sense that it cannot be compared to other languages and new concepts need to be introduced for the description of it. This paper is dedicated to the question of how to apply the notion of…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Variation, Sino Tibetan Languages, Contrastive Linguistics
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Arkadiusz Rojczyk; Pavel Sturm; Joanna Przedlacka – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Phonetic imitation is a ubiquitous process in speech production. Speakers have a strong tendency to imitate their interlocutors both in a native and a non-native language. It is especially important in acquiring non-native speech, because it allows forming new sound categories. In the current study we investigated whether and to what extent Polish…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Language Variation, Polish
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Ghazi Algethami; Sam Hellmuth – Second Language Research, 2024
Rhythm metrics can detect second language development of target-like speech rhythm but interpretation of the results from metrics in learners' speech is problematic because the mapping of metrics to underpinning phonological features is indirect. We investigate speech rhythm in first language (L1) Arabic / second language (L2) English, which…
Descriptors: Language Rhythm, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Arabic
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Alrumhi, Hamood Mohammed – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study seeks to uncover the theoretical bases for the production of the classical Arabic phonetic terms and their elements in the means of generating terms for both lexical semantics and conceptual semantics. The research problem is concerned with examining the roots of generating these phonetic terms and determining the categories of their…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Variation, Phonetics, Semantics
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Ramos, Jorge E.; Shea, Christine – Hispania, 2023
In this study we show that the perception of lateral variants by Puerto Rican listeners changes according to who the listener believes is speaking. Puerto Rican listeners heard sentences with target words featuring either rhotic [voiced alveolar tap or flap] or lateral [l] (amo[voiced alveolar tap or flap] -- amo[l]) codas, a sociophonetic…
Descriptors: Race, Racism, Puerto Ricans, Language Variation
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Megan M. Dailey; Camille Straboni; Sharon Peperkamp – Second Language Research, 2024
During spoken word processing, native (L1) listeners use allophonic variation to predictively rule out word competitors and speed up word recognition. There is some evidence that second language (L2) learners develop an awareness of allophonic distributions in their L2, but whether they use their knowledge to facilitate word recognition online,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Word Recognition, Language Variation, Native Language
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Elina Banzina – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Persuasiveness in oral communication in English can be expressed with various vocal phonetic cues that may not be readily accessible to English second language (L2) learners whose native language may employ a different set of cues. With a goal to increase L2 learners' perceived spoken confidence and persuasiveness, and obtain empirical evidence…
Descriptors: Language Variation, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Mompean, Jose A.; Fouz-González, Jonás – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2021
This article explores the potential of phonetic symbols in pronunciation teaching/learning, with a focus on English language teaching (ELT). After a brief contextualisation of current views of pronunciation instruction in the second-language (L2) teaching literature, the article reviews some of the potential advantages of, conditions for, and…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Deutschmann, Mats; Borgström, Eric; Falk, Daroon Yassin; Steinvall, Anders; Svensson, Johan – Language Awareness, 2023
The study describes a pedagogic adaptation of the matched guise technique with the aim to raise linguistic self-awareness of L2 accentedness stereotyping effects among Swedish pre-service teachers. In the experiment, 290 students attending teacher training programs were exposed to one of two matched guises, representing either L1 accented Swedish,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Metalinguistics, Swedish
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Quam, Carolyn; Swingley, Daniel – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2023
Children are adept at learning their language's speech-sound categories, but just how these categories function in their developing lexicon has not been mapped out in detail. Here, we addressed whether, in a language-guided looking procedure, 2-year-olds would respond to a mispronunciation of the voicing of the initial consonant of a newly learned…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Pronunciation, Vocabulary Development, Intonation
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