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Li, Ying – English Language Teaching, 2016
Language learners' language experience is predicted to display a significant effect on their accurate perception of foreign language sounds (Flege, 1995). At the superasegmental level, there is still a debate regarding whether tone language speakers are better able to perceive foreign lexical tones than non-tone language speakers (i.e Lee et al.,…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Thai, Accuracy, Tone Languages
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Ahmadian, Moussa; Yazdani, Hooshang; Darabi, Ali – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper introduces a corpus-driven measure as a method to assess EFL learners' knowledge of semantic prosody. Semantic prosody here is defined as the tendency of some words to occur in a certain semantic environment. For example, the verb "cause" is associated with unpleasant things--death, problem and the like. Subjects were 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning