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Saito, Kazuya; Suzukida, Yui; Tran, Mai; Tierney, Adam – Language Learning, 2021
To date, a growing number of studies have shown that domain-general auditory processing, which prior work has linked to L1 acquisition, could explain various dimensions of naturalistic L2 speech proficiency. The current study examined the generalizability of this topic to L2 speech learning in classroom settings. The spontaneous speech samples of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Usage
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Heikkilä, Jenni; Tiippana, Kaisa; Loberg, Otto; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. – Language Learning, 2018
Seeing articulatory gestures enhances speech perception. Perception of auditory speech can even be changed by incongruent visual gestures, which is known as the McGurk effect (e.g., dubbing a voice saying /mi/ onto a face articulating /ni/, observers often hear /ni/). In children, the McGurk effect is weaker than in adults, but no previous…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Audiovisual Aids, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests
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Broos, Wouter P. J.; Duyck, Wouter; Hartsuiker, Robert J. – Language Learning, 2016
Speakers monitor their own speech for errors. To do so, they may rely on perception of their own speech (external monitoring) but also on an internal speech representation (internal monitoring). While there are detailed accounts of monitoring in first language (L1) processing, it is not clear if and how monitoring is different in a second language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech Communication, Metacognition, Native Language
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Hochmann, Jean-Rémy; Langus, Alan; Mehler, Jacques – Language Learning, 2016
Models of language acquisition are constrained by the information that learners can extract from their input. Experiment 1 investigated whether 3-month-old infants are able to encode a repeated, unsegmented sequence of five syllables. Event-related-potentials showed that infants reacted to a change of the initial or the final syllable, but not to…
Descriptors: Infants, Auditory Perception, Language Acquisition, Syllables
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Strijkers, Kristof – Language Learning, 2016
I will propose a tentative framework of how words in two languages could be organized in the cerebral cortex based on neural assembly theory, according to which neurons that fire synchronously are bound into large-scale distributed functional units (assemblies), which represent a mental event as a whole ("gestalt"). For language this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Guidelines, Language Processing
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Homae, Fumitaka; Watanabe, Hama; Taga, Gentaro – Language Learning, 2014
Infants often pay special attention to speech sounds, and they appear to detect key features of these sounds. To investigate the neural foundation of speech perception in infants, we measured cortical activation using near-infrared spectroscopy. We presented the following three types of auditory stimuli while 3-month-old infants watched a silent…
Descriptors: Infants, Speech, Auditory Perception, Intonation
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Darcy, Isabelle; Mora, Joan C.; Daidone, Danielle – Language Learning, 2016
This study investigated the role of inhibition in second language (L2) learners' phonological processing. Participants were Spanish learners of L2 English and American learners of L2 Spanish. We measured inhibition through a retrieval-induced inhibition task. Accuracy of phonological representations (perception and production) was assessed through…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Processing, Classification, Task Analysis
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Chrabaszcz, Anna; Gor, Kira – Language Learning, 2014
In order to comprehend speech, listeners have to combine low-level phonetic information about the incoming auditory signal with higher-order contextual information to make a lexical selection. This requires stable phonological categories and unambiguous representations of words in the mental lexicon. Unlike native speakers, second language (L2)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Phonology
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Sebastian-Galles, Nuria; Diaz, Begona – Language Learning, 2012
In the process of language learning, individuals must acquire different types of linguistic knowledge, such as the sounds of the language (phonemes), how these may be combined to form words (phonotactics), and morphological rules. Early and late bilinguals tend to perform like natives on second language phonological tasks that involve pre-lexical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Phonemes, Phonology, Second Language Learning
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van Hell, Janet G.; Tanner, Darren – Language Learning, 2012
Although research has consistently shown that a bilingual's two languages interact on multiple levels, it is also well-established that bilinguals can vary considerably in their proficiency in the second language (L2). In this paper we review empirical studies that have examined how differences in L2 proficiency modulate cross-language…
Descriptors: Priming, Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Language Proficiency
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Wang, Min; Koda, Keiko – Language Learning, 2007
This study examined word identification skills between two groups of college students with different first language (L1) backgrounds (Chinese and Korean) learning to read English as a second language (ESL). Word identification skills were tested in a naming experiment and an auditory category judgment task. Both groups of ESL learners demonstrated…
Descriptors: Identification, Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Word Recognition
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Erdener, V. Dogu; Burnham, Denis K. – Language Learning, 2005
Visual information from the face is an integral part of speech perception. Additionally, orthography can play a role in disambiguating the speech signal in nonnative speech. This study investigates the effect of audiovisual speech information and orthography on nonnative speech. Particularly, orthographic depth is of interest. Turkish transparent…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Speech, Auditory Perception, Language Processing