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Trude, Alison M.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Language Learning, 2011
We examined negative transfer from English and Spanish to Portuguese pronunciation. Participants were native English speakers, some of whom spoke Spanish. Participants completed a computer-based Portuguese pronunciation tutorial and then pronounced trained letter-to-sound correspondences in unfamiliar Portuguese words; some shared orthographic…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Portuguese
Scliar-Cabral, Leonor; And Others – 1990
This study investigated the relative ability of literate (n=24), semi-literate (n=45), and non-literate (n=21) adults to erase the initial consonant or vowel from non-words and pronounce the remaining phonemes. It was hypothesized that difficulty in removing the initial consonant from the vowel with which it coarticulates is due not only to…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Context Clues, Error Patterns