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Saloranta, Antti; Heikkola, Leena Maria; Peltola, Maija S. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
Phonological duration differences in quantity languages can be problematic for second language learners whose native language does not use duration contrastively. Recent studies have found improvement in the processing of non-native vowel duration contrasts with the use of listen-and-repeat training, and the current study explores the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Adults, Phonemes, Pronunciation Instruction, Second Language Learning
Jiang, Fan; Kennison, Shelia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The current study investigates the influence of L2 English learners' belief about their interlocutor's English proficiency on phonetic accommodation and explores whether interaction-induced phonetic convergence could improve L2 English learners' vowel pronunciation. Results from two experiments show that when the subjects believed that their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Attitudes
Abu Guba, Mohammed Nour – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This paper examines the understudied phenomenon of consonant gemination in the pronunciation of English among Levantine Arabic learners of English (LA learners). The very few studies that touched on gemination among LA learners attributed gemination to spelling in the target language (English). This study challenges this analysis and demonstrates…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Phonology
Rabab'ah, Ghaleb; Kessar, Sara; Abusalim, Nimer – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The prominent role of allophonic cues in English speech segmentation has widely been recognized by phonologists and psycholinguists. However, very meager inquiry was devoted to analysing the perception of these noncontrastive allophonic cues by Arab EFL learners. Accordingly, the present study is an attempt to examine the exploitation of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psycholinguistics
Alwazna, Rafat – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2020
Based on Mahboob and Elyas (World Engl 33(1):128-142, 2014), who identified an expanding circle variety of Englishes, known as 'Saudi English', the present paper addresses the consonantal variations between Formal English and a sub-variety of Saudi English, termed as 'Saudi Hijazi English'. The paper presents the specific consonants of Saudi…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Cheng, Yu-Lin – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
In this study, EFL learners who listened to four short context-rich audio files each delivered in an unfamiliar English accent were required to produce best-attempt transcriptions and accent imitation recordings. Results indicate that exposure alone does not suffice to eliminate accent impact on EFL listeners. Importantly, results from one-way…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Dialects, Pronunciation
Ding, Yi; Liu, Ru-De; McBride, Catherine A.; Fan, Chung-Hau; Xu, Le; Wang, Jia – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2018
This study examined pinyin (the official phonetic system that transcribes the lexical tones and pronunciation of Chinese characters) invented spelling and English invented spelling in 72 Mandarin-speaking 6th graders who learned English as their second language. The pinyin invented spelling task measured segmental-level awareness including…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonetics, Intonation, Pronunciation
Banzina, Elina; Dilley, Laura C.; Hewitt, Lynne E. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The importance of secondary-stressed (SS) and unstressed-unreduced (UU) syllable accuracy for spoken word recognition in English is as yet unclear. An acoustic study first investigated Russian learners' of English production of SS and UU syllables. Significant vowel quality and duration reductions in Russian-spoken SS and UU vowels were found,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals, Syllables
Kennison, Shelia M.; Fernandez, Elaine C.; Bowers, J. Michael – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
The research investigated the roles of semantic and phonological processing in word production. Spanish-English bilingual individuals produced English target words when cued with definitions that were also written in English. When the correct word was not produced, a secondary task was performed in which participants rated the ease of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Prediction, Memory
Chen, Hsueh Chu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2015
This paper includes two interrelated studies. The first production study investigates the timing patterns of English as spoken by Chinese learners with different dialect backgrounds. The second comprehension study explores native and non-native speakers' assessments of the intelligibility of Chinese-accented English, and examines the effects of…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Phonetics, Native Language, Chinese
Huang, Becky H. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014
The current study examined the age of learning effect on second language (L2) acquisition. The research goals of the study were twofold: to test whether there is an independent age effect controlling for other potentially confounding variables, and to clarify the age effect across L2 grammar and speech production domains. The study included 118…
Descriptors: Age, Second Language Learning, Grammar, English
Tomita, Kaoru; Yamada, Jun; Takatsuka, Shigenobu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2010
This study investigated how Japanese-speaking learners of English pronounce the three point vowels /i/, /u/, and /a/ appearing in the first and second monosyllabic words of English noun phrases, and the schwa /[image omitted]/ appearing in English disyllabic words. First and second formant (F1 and F2) values were measured for four Japanese…
Descriptors: Vowels, Nouns, North American English, English (Second Language)
Leikin, Mark; Ibrahim, Raphiq; Eviatar, Zohar; Sapir, Shimon – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
The goal of the present study was to examine functioning of late bilinguals in their second language. Specifically, we asked how native and non-native Hebrew speaking listeners perceive accented and native-accented Hebrew speech. To achieve this goal we used the gating paradigm to explore the ability of healthy late fluent bilinguals (Russian and…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Auditory Perception